Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.