You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.
Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.
As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations.
Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the filch on an icy street. Much the same age and build as Beamabeth, and far more beleaguered. What made a girl a ‘damsel in distress’? Were they not allowed claws? Mosca had a hunch that if all damsels had claws they would spend a lot less time ‘in distress’.
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.