I was part of a generation where kids had a lot of freedom and aimless downtime. I had no scheduled after-school activities. As long as you came home for dinner, everything was fine.
The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.
I sometimes allow people to infer that I'm much less successful than I am.
Talking about the characters in a book she had enjoyed felt like gossiping about friends.
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.
