I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

Life can change in an instant.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.