I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.