thombits ~tämˈbits~: condensed thoughts

“Why has she clung to something that was both so tormenting and so unchangeable when any other woman, even the women she had been in the past, would has ended it years ago and gotten on with life?  She was, she has been, an adapter: there was never a situation so surprising or demanding that she couldn’t adjust to it in an even-minded way.”

Jane Urquhart “The Night Stages” p. 253

“She has become unknowable, and very likely uninteresting.  She has blamed Niall for this, and for much else, though she knows that it has been her own acquiescence that has caused her to become, in every possible way, a passenger.”

Jane Urquhart “The Night Stages” p. 10

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”

Oscar Wilde