A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.
More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.