I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shi…”

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and …”

“Daddy's girl. Was it a 'itty-bitty bravekins and did it suffer? Oooooo-tweet, d…”