Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.