Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

if you were really busy, you could almost forget about it, but when you stopped moving, it was murder

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.

Shouldn't you be looking at other cars? You know, car shopping usually involves ... shopping." "I don't shop very well", Grace said. "I just see what I need and get it.

I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.

There was no other sound in the world like a car crash.