“Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.”
“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”
“I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself known.”
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
“I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason.”
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”