Шов для мужа

The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you. Or perhaps the moral is that brides never fare well in stories, and one should avoid either being a bride, or being in a story.

... I do not ask because the answer would be, like adolescence, too frightening to forget.

Scoffing is the first mistake a woman can make. <...> Pride is the second mistake. <...> As it turns out, being right was the third, and worst, mistake.