“It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.”

“The effect is both domestic and wild, equal parts geometric and chaotic. It's the visual signature of small, diversified farms that creates the picture-postcard landscape here, along with its celebrated gastronomic one. Couldn't Americans learn to love landscapes like these around our cities, treasuring them not just gastronomically but aesthetically, instead of giving everything over to suburban development? Can we only love agriculture on postcards?”

“Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.”

“Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.”

“But the pill did nothing, probably expired like everything else on the premises.”

“It's frightening, she thinks, how when the going gets rough you fall back on whatever awful think you grew up with.”

“Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.”