All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
Well-read people are less likely to be evil.
It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.
If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.