Quotation

How COULD you? Without so much as a by-your-leave?” === “I never know what to make of conversations like this,” I said. “I sometimes have this fantasy that life would be wonderful if only my mother and my father were alive. Then I hear stories like yours and I want to get down on my hands and knees and rejoice.” === Any good liar will tell you that stitching in the occasional point of fact gives a fabricated story a certain ring of truth. === “Just because I couldn’t solve my own problems doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have a go at yours.” “Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but you’ll have to let us muddle through on our own.” === “So Greeks should only marry Greeks?” “If you knew any, you wouldn’t have to ask.”