“You are no ordinary girl, you were meant for something more.”

“70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2 million people in the world that cannot.”

“My cup runneth over and I worry about the stain.”

“She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife.”

“In this world there are DREAMERS WHO ONLY DREAM.THERE ARE DREAMERS WHO LIVE THEIR DREAM.AND, THERE ARE SCHEMERS WHO STEAL THE INNOCENT ONES' DREAMS.”

“Hey, Weenie Samdini!" Henry Farmer called as he waited to get on the school bus Sam would have been taking. "Why don't you do a magic trick and make yourself grow so you can k-k-kiss Stutter-girl?""It's frightening to think that one day his vote will count as much as yours or mine," Sam mused.”

“You see, sometimes when you work by yourself in a field such as ours, it helps to share knowledge among professionals. I'm not saying that we watch one another's back or anything, because we don't. It's more of a back-scratching than a back-watching affair, as in, "You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours." Officially, none of us has ever heard of any of us.”