Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

I love you. I'm madly in love with you. Well, madly obviously, given I'm mad as a mudlark. But you saved my life. I'd be dead without you. And you're so good to me. And you love me too. How lucky is that? Amazing! Amazingly lucky. I can't live without you. You're my lucky charm." She felt a sudden desire to kill Justin's well-meaning friend.

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.