I don't miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

“You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company w…”

“If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things c…”

“Sharper than a serpent's tooth is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest…”

“He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to c…”