Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be s...
And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to say toyou, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should say it as urgentlyas if I were standing in the room with you. That life—whateverelse it is...
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well eno...
We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was t...