Marry him. Good dull husbands are hard to find.
Legend had it that the word Mafia was coined after an incident where a young girl was raped and murdered, and her anguished mother ran into the night screaming for her daughter, ‘Ma fia! Ma fia!
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.
Kelly, before you walked out there, the audience thought you were just a beautiful, untouchable dream, a fantasy, out of reach. When you tripped and fell, it showed them that you’re human, and they ad...
It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.
How long a honeymoon are you planning? Mrs. Stanhope inquired. About fifty years, Charles replied.
His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.
Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sen...
Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
But there was not a police car in sight. Sure, Tracy thought in disgust. They’re never around when you need them.
But he said it couldn’t have
But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft. So it was only necessary to keep him hard until he gave you what you wanted.
You must understand something, Mr Thompson. What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It’s the people who matter. I’m able to give them a comfortable pla...
Men were handy to have around, when required. They were not particularly intelligent, but they could be taught to fetch and light cigarettes, run errands, open doors and give satisfaction in bed. They...
I’m alive, she thought. No one is born happy. Everyone has to make his own happiness. I’m a survivor. I’m young and I’m healthy and wonderful things are going to happen.
It’s indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought.
It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..
Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves.
I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.