At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?