We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.
I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.
Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.
What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider
He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.
You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.