Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.
You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.
Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.