I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing
You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.
...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.