“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”
“When I wake up, I'm going to kick your ass.”
“Mother! Katie remembered. She had called her own mother "mama" until the day she had told her that she was going to marry Johnny. She had said, "Mother, I'm going to marry..." She had never said "mama" after that. She had finished growing up when she stopped calling her mother “mama.” Now Francie…”
“I'm going back to bed. And when I wake up maybe that ugly girl will be gone.”
“I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night”
“So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me.""While I think you'll marry Sophos.""I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.”