I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.
After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.
In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.
In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.
Unfortunately people sometimes suppress their lust. And it's not only sex. It could be lusting for anything really, anything that's supposedly very bad for you but can be good for you, too.
Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.
No far from it. Faaaaarrr from that.