Quotes
It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.
p. 18
Being ignored was a therapy that had rarely been tried upon these girls.
p. 223
As every minister knows, a prayer is a superb device for airing an opinion.
p. 72
It's UPS
with two parcels! ...
a handsome lad, guesses it's my birthday
and asks how old I am. He acts surprised
he's a decade younger. We linger at the door
one of us is not immortal anymore.
What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.
He repeated himself so often that some of what he said seeped into the ears. (p190)
I am fat with love! Husky with ardor! Morbidly obese with devotion! A happy, busy bumblebee of marital enthusiasm. I positively hum around him, fussing and fixing. I have become a strange thing. I have become a wife. I find myself steering the ship of conversations—bulkily, unnaturally—just so I can say his name aloud. I have become a wife, I have become a bore, I have been asked to forfeit my Independent Young Feminist card. I don’t care.
p. 38
…soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.
p. 72
Sleep is like a cat: it only comes to you if you ignore it.
p. 57
"Lady, do I look like a bleeping babysitter?"
"He nearly died."
"Yeah, because he's a fool. There's no known cure for that." (Chapter 6)
He won the governorship running as a Democrat, but proved to be unlike any Democrat or Republican that the state of Florida had ever seen. To the utter confusion of everyone in Tallahassee, Clinton Tyree turned out to be a completely honest man. (Chapter 10)
“D’you know what homeostasis is?”
“I used to, before I rotted my brain with politics.”
p. 390
