After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.