“Don't say anything. Just act cool," I whispered.Mavkel started to shiver."Like this?" it asked."No, I mean act calm."Mavkel stopped shivering.”

“I hate & love. And if you should ask how I do both,I couldn't say; but I feel it , and it shivers me.”

“...(roses) each one shivering with cool silver light.”

“I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." ----Roarke, Naked In Death”

“I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”

“...I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.”