“Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.”
“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
“Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.”
“A Man"s smile may lead ones way but a women's smile helps brighten the hearts of humanity everyday”
“He noticed her giving him the once-over and smiled in a way no gay boy in history had ever smiled at a girl.”
“There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.”