Knowing and believing are two different things.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

You don't look so hot, Adrien." "Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day." His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. "Tell me about it.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked...fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus.