Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

So many stories are determined before they start.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.