“No, no, not this one. She's a bad egg," she'd say until she was red in the face.”
“Up until today she'd felt as if she was surviving. Now she felt as though she was living.Everything was different.”
“She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.”
“She was not who she'd thought she was. No one was.”
“At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.”
“Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable.”