You put your time where your priority is.
If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.
Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.