“4. If you do not give your chickens enough space, light, air, and walking-around room, they will eat one another.”

“Tobin, my man, you are going to learn about chickens. And when you to learn about chickens, you will learn about life.”

“Dream girl? Ain't such a thing. You walk, you talk, you got mammary glands, well, that's gonna do it right there for most guys.”

“You can't expect a person to love an animal they might see decapitated at any minute. It ain't realistic," I told Miss Blue, who was gulping down her worm. She looked up at me like it shocked her to learn that some chickens got treated that way.”

“I like your mama,' Trena tells me. 'She seems like good people.''Smile!' my mom calls to me from across the room, and I look at her and smile. Because she is good people. And she means well, even if she does drive me crazy.”

“Quit it already. I'm pretty enough as it is.”

“That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you.”