I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling...

People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people’s.

The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.

It is so subtle to write things that have no meaning.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me...

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces...

You should not want to know the things in people’s minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

People’s weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

Pushing forty? She’s hanging on for dear life.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It’s just a line to hang the washing on.