Talent is a valued tormentor.
A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.