“Six mirrors keep staring at one another("Monday rue Christine")”

“The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.”

“Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be.Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance.”

“Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.”

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

“There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her..the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart.”