It Was Better To Know The Worst

It's A Curse - This Not Wanting To Look On Naked Realities. Until The War, Life Was Never More Real To Me Than A Shadow Show On A Curtain. And I Preferred It So. I Do Not Like The Outlines Of Things To Be Too Sharp. I Like Them Gently Blurred, A Little Hazy.

Hardships Make Or Break People.

. . . She Knew Only That If She Did Or Said Thus-and-so, Men Would Unerringly Respond With The Complimentary Thus-and-so. It Was Like A Mathematical Formula And No More Difficult, For Mathematics Was The One Subject That Had Come Easy To Scarlett In Her Schooldays.

So You’ll Have To Wait For Approval From Your Grandchildren.” “i Wonder What Our Grandchildren Will Be Like!” “are You Suggesting By That ‘our’ That You And I Will Have Mutual Grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

Now You Are Beginning To Think For Yourself Instead Of Letting Others Think For You. That’s The Beginning Of Wisdom.