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

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

Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

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 froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

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.