Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.

Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!” Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.