one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.