He would weep for hours together, and I verily believe that to the very end this spoilt child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious.

People with narcissistic personality disorder usually have very low self-esteem and base all their self-worth on how much attention they get.

They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.

Blackcurrant jam is easy, but this year I have left the blackcurrants so long that they are sweet and ripe enough to eat raw: delicious rolled in a crunch of granulated sugar.