You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.
Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
Writing is a form of self-redemption.