Are you quite certain you don’t want to come up to my flat for tea and toast and scandal?

For several moments, Mary couldn’t hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.

If you ever need to poison someone, do it with a bacon sandwich.

It’s terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.

Mr. Ching claims the superiority of Chinese hand-and-foot fighting, and promises ocular proof of such.

He stopped in a seedy alley in Holborn where he jumped down from the carriage, held a muttered conference with a dirty, one-eyed old woman, and climbed back in, his arms full of grubby cloth.She wrinkled her nose. "Phew. What the devil is all that?""It's a dress.""Oh, no. I'm not putting that on. It stinks of last week's washing up.""It smells of the people.

-¿No sabes qué decir? -parecía divertirse con la confusión que se reflejaba en su rostro.-Sospecho que eres tú quien trata de dejarme sin nada que decir.

Only the greedy and stupid attempt the White Pass. They try by the hundreds each week.

For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.

Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.