Carol Anshaw

“Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One”

“Because of her hospital schedule, she was either not around at all, or sleeping, or around a lot.”

“But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.”

“You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.”

“...religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the first thing. Then the guys say okay, now that we've got the giant corn thing going, how can we use it to oppress women?”

“He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.”

“Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury…”