Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.