There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.