If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.