What a bloody jungle income tax is! It's a wonder we don't all go on strike and refuse to pay. - Susan Howatch

Recovering from an ill-starred romance is, after all, to anyone of sufficient will-power and self-respect, purely an attitude of mind.

... we have to be kind, we have to be charitable and we can't condemn people just because they get in a mess...even the best people can get into ghastly messes,...we must never judge other people too harshly because although they can make awful mistakes they can still be very nice people.

To be distracted is pardonable. To be incoherent is simply unobliging.