I didn't even breathe.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.