The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’‘How?’‘You’ve come more alive.

An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave.

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life, ’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.

People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.

This is the word of the LORD saying, Not by Might, nor by Power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

He who cannot obey cannot command.

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination.

Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.