“Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women.”

“I have no wish to talk nonsense.""If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.”

“I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

“You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?”

“Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at least a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction?”

“The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation — or a relationship.”