Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.
She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.