Another person's thoughts about you are outside of your jurisdiction

Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I'm not a fan of pain.

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.

I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.