“Life is, of course, terrible.”

“And then I hear the terrible, terrible scream that of course is the girl getting caught and that’s the choice made, ain’t it?”

“And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.”

“She listened for Terrible's voice in her head and didn't hear it.Of course, she also couldn't feel her extremities. But life was full of tradeoffs, right?”

“Without the personal traumas, tribulations and ‘terribles’ that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn’t have gained the information necessary to write this book and my life would never have taken the course it has.”

“[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.”