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All right already! Eating will be challenging, are you happy?" "In general or at the moment?" "Good God, Mother!

Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly. 'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out.

There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this.

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture. Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

Kate picked up her coffee cup, frowning when she saw it was empty. Did you drink my coffee? Yes. I was feeling aggressive.

I'm an open Minded Man. How about a threesom? You, me and the machine?

What are we going to do with the body? She had visions of dragging it into the swamp, whispering, Here, gator, gator, and she made a little sound of distress at the thought.

Lee stood in front of the class the first day and said, "Anybody who makes fun of romance fiction is making fun of Jane Austen, and anybody who makes fun of Jane Austen answers to me." Why yes, I would walk across broken glass for that man. Why do you ask?

Who was the moron on the phone? Carl Avery, Kate said. A long-standing client and potential felon.

Excuse me," North said. "I'd like to continue this conversation but I find myself in need of a therapist.

She had to be the calmest woman in the world. Either that or she trusted him completely. That was depressing somehow. He went to take a cold shower.

IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, a more reliable alternative came along, and it is still the most common induction method today. This is Pitocin

Misses everything," Lila said, and gave the faintest smile. "It's like a joke. Like, there should be a Mister Everything somewhere.

When you have excluded the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Her anecdotes had a polished quality, like she had read a book on what could possibly make a beautiful girl sound sympathetic and memorized the answers.

The measure of a man is, does he know how to love. Clement Sills knew how to love. That's what he did. That's what he taught every single one of us who were lucky enough to know him.

Authors like Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd or Julian Barnes engage with metropolitan subject-matter, but the books that sell by the container-load are historical romances. The upper classes may have lost their political power, but they still manage to set the social tone and determine the aspirations of the ambitious.

operations] that previously only Tier One Special Mission Units would be doing.

Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.

they cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.

I can't say I altogether blame the man (which is doubtless a great relief to his mind).

information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.  Its pages form the record of events that really happened.  All that has been done

But who wants to be foretold the weather?  It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. 

There are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford.  Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day, and fourteen on the second, and evidently thought he had got to heaven.