We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.

Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said."I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.

Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English." "But Italian is so moving," Dain said. "To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi." I've wanted you from the first moment I saw you. "Mi tormenti ancora." You've tormented me ever since.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm." "You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences.

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing