The Piano Teacher

doesn’t have to buy a
pig in a poke.

It is a mother’s duty to help a child make up her mind and to prevent wrong decisions. By not encouraging injuries, a mother avoids having to close wounds later on. Erika’s mother prefers inflicting injuries herself, then supervising the therapy.

Mother worries a lot, for the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Only death is free, and even death costs you your life.

If neither spouse can yield, then a marriage is doomed

Vice is basically the love of failure.

thousand feet above sea
level! The tuner prophesiz

mortal coils, which have been
nicely dried and starched crisp and stiff.

Shrieking and groaning, the notes squirm
out of the instrument.