A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.