Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. “You've been reading again.” “Blow me.

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.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

God is dead and I am his replacement.

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.