Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.