All literature is gossip

“[Mrs. Clare] is a gaunt, trouser-wearing, woolen-shirted, cowboy-booted, ginger…”

“But he does look stupid.'Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the in…”

“I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my h…”

“...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's l…”