novel

Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line

No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.

Love is a struggle, hard to get and hard to leave.

Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady to remove the book from off the top of her head and open it for a change. Just like I taught you.

Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.

Sexual harassment cases are piling up. The whole school__ going love crazy!

The miraculous power of love has often been underestimated just like we underestimate the power of sleep. Most of the herculean tasks performed by men were possible because they had been deeply in love and had slept well the night before.

She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.

I don__ mind my friends calling me 'Thornes,' but the fact of people calling me 'Prickly Thornes' draws the line.

Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only does the chief won't feel any uncertainty on Anthony and I, but the spirits of the victims can move on. It sounds silly to believe that the undead is still around, but it is the truth. And since I have a good heart, I must use it.

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?

Everything was bright and white, even in the night.

Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm towards you or anyone else. Like I said before, a policeman's job is to protect people. And if they can't, that's an issue for the officer. But for now, don't worry about it.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

Brian organised for the body to be flown back.

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.