The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
Death is the only real elegance.
Father said conflict develops the character
We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.