What tinfoil?" he asked.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not.

Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.