You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.