“Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than are worse than no jewelry at all.”
“Hell couldn't be all bad if it had jewelry.”
“There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.”
“A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.”
“Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions.”
“Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.”