A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.