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1 " Perhaps Anita Loos had been right when she wrote that family life was only fit for those who could stand it. "
― , Snowed In
2 " you can be pinpricked to death,' said Marta. 'I think the Chinese have a torture along those lines. "
3 " The poet Swinburne said that spring begins 'blossom by blossom. "
4 " It's the quiet ones who suffer most. "
5 " Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it. "
6 " These displays made it clear that the truly dedicated homemaker matched her comforter to her pillow shams to her washcloths to her bedskirt to her toothbrush holder. "
7 " Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in. "