"Ah, you see, Rachel, only strivers know about the stealthiness of time. No matter how young they are."

"She walked and walked, daring to be happy, risking the wrath of the Gods. She raised her large smiling face to the su…"

"'Still got your eyes closed, Rach?' she called. 'You should have stayed in Brisbane where it's safe!'"

"where George II died and where Queen Victoria was born is still used as apartments for the sovereign's relatives: Pri…"

"proposed as the chief gardener and William Brown as his assistant. Nelson had already 'sailed round the world in my s…"

"On 1 October 1918, when only sixteen, my father rode into Damascus with the , hours ahead of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence …"

"There is a that I will probably never send. I would not dare to. It is a cross of Jesus drawn in fresh blood from an …"

"... In 1961 she trained as a newspaper reporter and was sent to London to work for the Murdoch papers on . She filed …"

"In 2012, the Chinese sociologist Sūn Lìpíng (b. 1955) suggested the PRC [People's Republic of China] faced four possi…"

"If you imagine you are going to read of model children, with perhaps a naughtily inclined one to point a moral, you h…"