Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were. - Katherine Anne Porter

The past is never where you think you left it.

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Oh, what is life, she asked herself in desperate seriousness, in those childish unanswerable words, and what shall I do with it?