“With the tax in place, another hike in finished oil products become feasible.”

“They take herbs and they are having acupuncture all along, but they can never connect the two things together, acupuncture and pets.”

“I was working my way into Edith Head's department.”

“We're very different people, but we both speak Spanish, we have a Catholic upbringing and come from a similar culture. It blends into a peaceful life.”

“It was dangerous on an oil tanker. The fumes can get to you.”

In Nita's experience, the best intelligence officers in any big family were found among the younger siblings. They began their careers while small, nonthreatening, and unobtrusive. By adolescence, they developed formidable powers of observation and recollection, to say nothing of an ability to lurk at keyholes and befriend the servants.

This was when it hit him! The thought of losing his entire family in one day suddenly made his heart ache in a way that he didn't think could be possible.

My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.

“They were like a gift from God for us.”

“I think every newspaper needs to follow its conscience. They have readers to serve and they know best what their readers need and want.”