I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.
She jerked hastily back to avoid stepping on it, and her shoulder bumped his--he put a hand out to steady her, just as she turned to apologize and then she was somehow in the circle of his arm and he was kissing her.
My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.
Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.
Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.