What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.