When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.
When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.
Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
Violence is the instinctive response to fear.
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.