He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.

Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. "This is adequate?" "Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty?" "A gracious plenty. I like that," he said.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest.