Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.
Did anyone really know their child? Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight.
Your inferiority was right there on display for the world to see.
Women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.
When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.
When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.
Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.
They say it’s good to let your grudges go, but I don’t know, I’m quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.
The only woman who deserved a philandering husband was a philandering wife.
Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.
Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference.
Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you.