I just can't imagine what it's going to be like without him. We've been together a long time.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in the morning and culminating in a ball.

This," said a voice from the depths of the sofa, "is too much.

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.