Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.
Josephine TeyIt was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.
Josephine TeyThat was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.
Josephine Tey