The city's full of people who you just see around.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.