I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

You should name him Fezzik." "Inconceivable.

As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy." The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. "I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.

Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.