“Why must the show go on?”
“Every corpse is a patriot.”
“You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.”
“He finds me charming and so long as I don't think about it, it's ok, but I worry, what if I forget to do it or can't be charming or try, one day, just a bit too hard so that it is altogether not charming but something else. I couldn't ask for anything more or for more generosity or, and this is perhaps the most important, exquisite tact. ”
“And she would continue to say to those who would still listen that it was a classic case of betrayal (You can never tell about appearance, she'd say) and would, somewhat to her credit, know that it was no such thing. ”
“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”