But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

Don't waste your time on life.