Now I think it would be sort of silly after all this time to divorce him.

You may not be 21 anymore, but that doesn' t mean you can' t sometimes get a little silly.

What was the matter, what was the matter - you always ask such silly questions.

I even remember the very first word that I ever read all by myself, a moment that, silly as it is, was one of the major epiphanies of my life.

Each sentence ends with a silly exclamation point - he was young, he was cheerful, maybe he' d had a glass of wine.