At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
People who keep journals have life twice
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.