Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . And then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

She might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.