Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat.

Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.

"Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." "I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it."