“It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight...”
“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.”
“It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.”
“Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,“you know I love you dearly—”“Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expectnothing good when I hear a sentence beginning inthat manner?”
“When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.”
“All your worries will begin to end when you start letting your faith kick in!”