I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it's our brother she wants to marry?

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.

Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their...

I believe I have requested you several times not to call Rupert 'imbecile,' infant. But Monseigneur, he is an imbecile! she protested. You know he is! Undoubtedly, ma fille, but I do not tell the...

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...

She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct.

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.

I. At tea, the kettle descants in a cozy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting...

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...

The ability of the powerful to dismiss inconvenient people {and inconvenient truths} by paying no attention has become the focus of social psychologists, who are finding relationships between power...

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...

Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our...

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

They don't hate us, Bobbie said, her voice tired. They're afraid of us. Then why do they act like they hate us? David's father said with something like triumph. Because that's what fear looks like...

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.

Definitely a bit sassy. Maybe I bring that out in women. I advised her

we were greeted warmly, but Ayla felt they were interrupting something. Everyone seemed to be looking at them, as though