If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one&#39;s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

To her all things are poignantly lacking — but she is incapable of desiring anything.

Written By Beryl Markham

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