She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

People never notice anything.

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.