I got really tall really quickly. I grew nine inches in one summer, and I was sort of like a Great Dane puppy, flopping around all over the place.
Heels are really hard to wear. I feel bad for every girl that has to wear heels or chooses to wear heels. They're not fun.
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
