Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.
A Dangerous LoveI think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Bankstry to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, LettersBoredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
Forest MageWell then, I guess I’m man enough to admit that I’m trying to get in touch with my inner bitch.
Alice in WonderlandHonestly, he could be adorable, and at the moment she had the feeling he wasn't even trying.
A Most Peculiar CircumstanceYou seem to be trying to ride a pony named Trouble all the way to the border.
Magic and Murder Among the DwarvesIf we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.
Middlemarch