You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.
I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.