“No, not really. But Okay, I couldnt help but gloat a little. She likes me.Samedi didnt even look at me. Well of course, youve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how m...”

“Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, Nora, Im notattempting to embarrass you or single you out. I know youre capable. But stay behind Chas, okay? You die, you d i e permanen...”

“I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.”

“She nodded and reached out to take my hand again. I turned to look at her fully, I didnt want to say it, but I felt I should. I'd never had a chance to say it to my sisters, to my mother and I'd al...”

“See, they say its survival of the fittest, but you and I really know that its survival of the most heavily armed”

“What about mold," Tom reminded her. "Fuzziness on a girl is never attractive.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“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...”