Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.