willow’s Reviews > Hapworth 16, 1924 > Status Update

'Do not take any more crafty refuge in your tender age, I beg you!'

'We send you our naked hearts!'

'Do not think me infallible! I am utterly fallible!'

'My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!'

"The most beautiful thing in the world, in a fairly large family going out to a party or even a casual restaurant, is the easy going, impatient positions of all the bodies in the living room while everybody is waiting for some slowpoke to get ready!"

'I am convinced God will kindly wear a human head, quite capable of nodding, for the benefit of some admirer who enjoys picturing Him that way'

"I personally will live at least as long as a well-preserved telephone pole, a generous matter of thirty (30) years or more, which is surely nothing to snicker at."

"Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experi- ence."

'a fairly terrible capacity for experiencing pain that does not always properly belong to us [..] I see no way to quit experiencing a little pain, here and there, till we have fulfilled our opportunities and obligations in the present, interesting, humorous bodies. Half the pain around, unfortu- nately, quite belongs to somebody else who either shirked it or did not know how to grasp it firmly by the handle!'

' In the midst and heat of fury and gathering adversity, do our young lives not remain an unforgettable waltz?'

“Silence! Go forth, but tell no man!” said the splendid Tsiang Samdup. Quite right, though very difficult and widely ab- horred.

'Ye gods and little fishes!'

'Give it all you have, I beg you! It is a charming tune.'

'The general scenery is spell- binding, both underfoot as well as to the sides'

'Re- sign yourselves to ripping your hearts out by the roots!'

'and it is always too damned easy to fail to remember how little I can stand useless separations'

'quite delightful and enlivening in my opinion, that everybody seated in the library has a gall bladder and various other, touching organs un-der their skin'