No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

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

Superstition has its practical uses.

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

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

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.