“Just cause a body says somethin dont make it so. You know who you are, and they cant change that no matter what them cacklin hens is to say. He tapped him on the chest. What matters is whats in her...”

“Ellis, he said. Youre watchin a miracle right under your nose. He gave a few of the seeds to Ellis and let him drop them into the hole he had already made. In each of them little things, God put li...”

“There was a moment of hesitation in which Joe looked into her eyes, and she looked back without flinching. Many a time, he had been at the same game with her, and she had always crumbled, bowing to...”

“Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.”

“Just ’cause a body says somethin’ don’t make it so. You know who you are, and they can’t change that no matter what them cacklin’ hens is to say.” He tapped him on the chest. “What matters is what’...”

“Ellis,” he said. “You’re watchin’ a miracle right under your nose.” He gave a few of the seeds to Ellis and let him drop them into the hole he had already made. “In each of them little things, God ...”

“You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?""I guess I'll finish last.”

“Be careful, if I didn't know better, I would think you're sounding jealous.""Good thing you know better.”

“Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”