The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.