Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. - Theodore Sturgeon

“Oh well. Chacun à son goût, as they say, which means—”
And she stopped me. “Please. Don’t translate. It couldn’t be phrased as well in English.”
I had been about to say “—which means Jack’s son has the gout.”

Morals: They’re nothing but a coded survival instinct!

It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world’s in a rush to be beautiful.