“I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.”
“This, I must say, is unusual courtesy", he commented."This", she corrected him,"is an unusual country.”
“He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is thereason that I don't believe anything he has told me.”
“Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.”
“You are the closest I will ever come to magic.”
“He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.”