“It almost makes me cry to tell, what foolish Harriet befell.”
“Do you intend to make me cry, or are you just foolish?”
“I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.”
“I considered the wonder of the things that befell me, convinced that my life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw. -- Panama”
“Harriet! I've never met anyone called Harriet in real life. I had a brief fantasy about her being Harriet Vane, because she'd be about the right age for that, except that Harriet Vane would be addressed as Lady Peter, and anyway she's fictional. I can tell the difference, really I can.”
“Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.”