People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

I had a friend at college who took being poor very personally. He started showering in the sports centre next door and said he wasn't going to pay for the hot water in our flat anymore because he...

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father.

She's been, but she's coming back, he said. I expect her every minute. Ah! there she is. This was rather stupid of Stephen. He ought to have guessed that Lucia's second appearance was officially...

Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Here's the deal. We go in, you stand there like the asshole you are, and I explain you aren't gay lovers with the pharmacist. Sound good? Dove clicked her blinker on and checked her side mirror. All I...

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

That's just a fiction, a little game of protocol.

Vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt

Horatia said eagerly: Oh, you will take m - me instead? No, said Rule, with a faint smile. I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my...

We'd considered wearing uniform but Lesley said, what with her mask and everything, she'd look like a plastic cop monster from Doctor Who. I managed to restrain myself from telling her their real...

Indeed, it was an extremely skillful beta male who discovered fire, although, as expected, an alpha male almost immediately snatched it away from him {alphas failed in the discovery of fire, but since...

For a long moment, while Brock stood off observing them, Ned and Barley appraised one another as only Englishmen can who are of the same height and class and shape of head.

Once you include all the Lafrenières, Borés, Macartys, Chauvins, Viellards, Boisclaires, Boisblancs, and Lebedoyère connections, even if they don't dance afterward – which they will

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.