Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing. - Colleen McCullough

Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men are not uniform.