Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.

I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder.

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.