The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like popcorn. Whether a book is action-packed or not, all I need are well-written prose and quirky, fabulous characters to keep me going.

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

We are a sensational team.

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it

Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.