She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a week.

Pete's a good guy.""He just slept with my mother!""I didn't say he was perfect.

You do this often?" she asked."Drink or hijack women?

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.