“He was blaming her for being sick, and she kept repeating, 'I'm forty, do you hear? I'm forty and I've been through enough. I'm forty, it was too much.”
“I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.”
“She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.”
“Yeah, I'm over forty, flighty, and fluffy- I'd say I'm not ideal bouncer material.”
“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”
“Please. Alex, i'm begging you...forty-eight hours? Tell me you'll stay.”