love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain, - Elizabeth Peters

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.