The Julian ancestry was so stellar, so august, that opportunities to fill the family coffers had passed - Colleen McCullough

All that power held dormant, sleeping, only needing the detonation of a touch to trigger a chaos in which mind was subservient to passion, mind’s will extinguished in body’s will.

He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.