Ken Follett

There had been about two hundred Danish ships at sea on the morning of April 9, 1940, when Hitler invaded Denmark.

Tilde took the cigarette from Peter’s fingers, put it to her own mouth, drew in smoke, and handed the cigarette back. It was an intimate gesture, and he felt almost as if she had kissed him.

None of the above, baby. It’s nightmare time.

“Maybe we should return to Victorian times, when a man who kissed a woman considered himself engaged. At least girls knew where they were.”

Or am I a product of my upbringing and the society I was raised in?”

rapists aren’t really interested in sex. What they enjoy is having power over a woman, and dominating her, and scaring her, and hurting her

In her experience, on the rare occasions when a man put a woman’s needs ahead of his own, he expected her to act like a geisha for a month in gratitude.

Cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Romans 13:12

he had thought, the house would be filled with the laughter of children, and then his dream would have come true.

Instead it had turned into a nightmare.