“I dont want to hear it. Go back to Sammy and get your platter of gonorrhea with a heaping side order of chlamydia. Its free. Please leave.”

“Morning breath here. A dirty mouth you say, clean it up with Orbit. Maya chuckled. Unless you have gum, Im not letting you near me. She reached for a pillow and plopped it over her face. Ha-ha! Goo...”

“Alex chuckled and whispered in her ear. Im feeling huge . . . I mean I have this huge desire . . . Crap, you feel good tonight. And you smell so good.”

“I don’t want to hear it. Go back to Sammy and get your platter of gonorrhea with a heaping side order of chlamydia. It’s free. Please leave.”

“Morning breath here. ‘A dirty mouth you say,’ clean it up with Orbit.” Maya chuckled. “Unless you have gum, I’m not letting you near me.” She reached for a pillow and plopped it over her face. “Ha-...”

“Alex chuckled and whispered in her ear. “I’m feeling huge . . . I mean I have this huge desire . . . Crap, you feel good tonight. And you smell so good.”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”