All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person.