Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

I could fall for you in a heartbeat

When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?

You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!

I started writing stories in my spare time.