I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.