“If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.”

“Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway.'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I...”

“For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.”

“...Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium...”

“Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”

“I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didnt know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault.”

“Forgiveness heals any brokenness in the heart.”

“I love you best, and I'll miss you forever.”

“Oh, Caddy," said Saffron miserably."I know. It's awful. But I'm going. We all should.""It will be so sad.""You have to be sad sometimes," said Caddy. "Whatever Dad says. He may be right. Granddad p...”

“I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.”