“I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).”

“I'm human. The single most overused excuse on the planet for doing the absolute wrong thing.”

“When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.”

“Men got better with age, like wine. Women, on the other hand, were like cheese- aged was good to a degree, then came the mold and the inevitable casting aside.”

“There were two things a girl learned to do simultaneously at a very young age: knee a guy in the crotch and scream at the top of her lungs.”

“He smiled, which was not at all what she'd expected. It wasn't just a polite smile, either. It was the kind that made her want to sit on the front-porch swing, if she'd had a swing, and hum romantic songs from the thirties, those terrific old songs that talked about red sails in the sunset and the glory of love.”

“Not that he was any expert on the subject, but Matt believed he could tell a lot about a woman by observing the way she watched a sunset.”