Don’t know what good it does a man to live a few extra years if he can’t enjoy them.

Jenna had called me a robot, Mama thought I need a shrink, then Daddy got all proud because I’d made a fool of myself. I needed some aspirin.

How did you wage a battle for a man’s spirit when the man himself wasn’t sure he wanted you to win?

I refused to feel anything. People who felt got hurt. Hadn’t I learned that the hard way?

It is like trying to stop a runaway train with one hand tied behind my back.

Okay, woman. Spit that canary out and wipe those feathers off your chin. What the heck happened to you? Last night you were crying over a laxative commercial on TV.

No one should have to go through life with only half a heart.

Mama wasn’t Mama anymore, she was Mother, usually followed by a “pallease!

He sure isn’t looking at you like a friend. Let me put it this way. If you were a rabbit and he were a wolf, you’d be dead meat right now. Lord, I wish a guy would look at me that way.

Whether or not we had a future together was immaterial until we could untangle all the lies and pain from our past.