She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.