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.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

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...

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

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

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an...

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.

When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.

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...

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate...

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.

if you tease a dog, it bites.

Vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

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...

If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

Where are the others? I asked. They all snuck off to bone each other, Milo announced. Whoadie and Chén slipped away first, then Debbie snuck off with Graham. I had no idea how to respond to this...

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...

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the...

A man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous!

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.

"Very well," he said with a small sigh. "Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my heart, really." He leaned in, almost as if sharing a secret. "No one likes to feel superfluous." Grace just...

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.