To be a classic, a novel should be original.
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.
Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.
We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.
There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.