Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.
Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.