Weakness never got anyone anywhere.

“He was wearing that enigmatic little smile of his, as if he knew something that…”

“Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.”

“I have to go out,” she said, her words oddly curt and abrupt. “There‟s somethin…”

“For the first time in recent memory, he'd handled his daughter *exactly* right.…”