Night Over Water

Do you realize what that means?”
“It means I’m not scared of him.”
“It means more than that. It means you don’t love him anymore.”

Robbing someone was like a slap across the face: it might not do much damage, but it angered people out of all proportion

A cynical voice in the back of her mind said that holding hands with someone else’s husband was rarely simple and never pure

The mad rage left him as quickly as it had come. He felt calm, but shocked by his own violence, almost as if someone else had done it.

if there has to be crime it might as well be organized.

thieving was a dangerous game

Her little brother, Peter, hated her.
This is what it must be like, she thought, when the man you have been married to for twenty years tells you he’s having an affair with his secretary and he doesn’t love you anymore.

he got great satisfaction from defying the expectations of those who had plotted against him.

Diana felt flustered. She had never been in a situation like this. They both loved her. She had been to bed with both of them—and they both knew it. It was unbearably embarrassing. She wanted to comfort them both, but she was afraid to.

women like a man who makes them laugh,