“There was something more than a little satisfying about ripping the heart out of someone the moment before they expected to do the same to you.”

“Still pleasant as a cornered hedgehog, and as well mannered as a badger, I see.”

“Alisons gaze gentled. Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?”

“Samantha imagined that in another life, she and Alison could have, indeed, been friends. Had she not been about to rob the train.”

“Yere wet, he groaned. Im underwater. I ken that, bonny. But this dampness has nothing to do with that.”

“Experience should have taught ye by now that denying me what I want only makes me more relentless.”

“We already knew how much there was; it was splashed all over the evening papers in large, glaring headlines: Bank robbers grab 67,500! Biggest bank robbery ever! Daring bandits escape with huge sum...”

“Ive often been asked; how do you rob a bank? The answer to that is that there is no instruction book. The fact is you never know what will happen when you step through the door of a bank and declar...”

“Ive seen some of the most violent hard cases in the city twinkling through a quickstep and dipping into a tango with an aplomb and skill that would have earned them a guest spot on Come Dancing.”

“And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, Im goin with you.”

“..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.”

“Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. If youre implying that Im spoiled, I assure you that I am not.You should be. His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought her...”

“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous, still a love of the supernatural lingers among the more mountaino...”

“Give me but one hour of Scotland Let me see it ere I die.”

“O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial ban...”