It takes a child to say the unsayable.
I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.