Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops...when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living.

There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.