Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. 
Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.
The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.
I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.
He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs. 
Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people. 
She called me a rat.' 'Oh yes, I gathered you two were very close! 
You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him. 
I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence. 
He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer. However, 
They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls. 