Instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of t...
War often wounds the soul as deeply as it does the body, sometimes more so.
Unguarded moment she pictured herself waltzing with Viscount Whitleaf,
Life was not easy. And what an earth-shatteringly original observation that was.
There is something about boys, she said, that makes them think it is unmanly to show any feelings other than scorn and irritation or any enthusiasm for anything. It is a very unattractive trait.
There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...]
One could not change the past anyway. Why let it blight the present and the future?
I am not afraid of being single. I am afraid of making a marriage I would regret.
Your dog has not lost any time in catching up on his beauty sleep. Just do not utter any word that begins with w, she said, especially with the letters a-l-k attached. You would soon discover how deep...
What if I should drop the ring? Cyril asked on the way to the church. Surely one of the functions of the best man - the principal function, in fact - was the calm the nerves of the bridegroom. Then yo...
La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.
It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being.
There is a l-life lesson here for all of us, is there, M-Mrs. Keeping? he asked her. We should all and always look upward, and all our t-troubles will be at an end? She smiled. If only life were that...