Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.