There is no good thing that does not cost a dear price. That is what Cristoforo learned by looking back upon his life. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. That is what you gave me, lord.

She could never have been the woman of his dreams; there were times when he suspected she had once loved another man, too, that was as lost to her as both his …

If they were servants by nature,' said colon, ' you wouldn't have to beat them to get them to obey.

I hoped for your company. For many conversations' she thought about it, but in the end she shook her head. 'It would be too:hard for me. This is too hard for m…

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love.