Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events