Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it".

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.