If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.