Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.

His writings have made me his friend.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown