She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
