They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.

Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.