“I decided to irritate him, on the premise that it couldn't make my situation any worse.”
“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.”
“As if my day couldn't get any worse, I was about to be preached to by an Evangelical Elvis impersonator.”
“worrying doesn't change a situation.. it will only make it worse.”
“My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.”
“There's three things ye can do in any situation, girl,...Ye can decide to do a thing, ye can decide not to do a thing, ...or ye can decide not to decide.”