“Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers.”

“Never take what's offered, always ask for more.”

“You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.”

“Go round cringing like a dog, Matt," he said, "and folks will treat you like one. Stand up like a man, and they'll treat you like a man." That was fine for Weaver, but I wondered sometimes, How exactly do you stand up like a man when you're a girl?”

“Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same.”

“But words are more powerful than anything.”

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”