“Kristin nods, marching ahead of Clark, who gazes as the impossible smallness of Kristin’s ankles and feet. Years later, while imprisoned for drug charges, he will think of those tiny feet and know he is forever doomed for having lied to her, for having harmed something so delicate, so defenseless, so small, so weak.”

“It took all of her moral strength not to kick him—just a little—while he was so conveniently at her feet.”

“A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.”

“We may not know what lies a few years into the future... But for a few feet, our path is clear. So, GO.”

“After a while Carl asked him, “How does it make you feel that those politicians have so much while you have so little?”The driver shrugged his shoulders and replied, “Don’tyou understand that they must have done something good in their previous life to get so much in this one?”Carl nodded even though he didn’t understand and probably never would.”

“He seemed so terribly weak. She would have had more respect for him if he'd told her to go fuck herself.' I have to go to sleep' she'd scathe.Then she'd roll over, and so would he. They'd be lying there like two strangers who just happened to be sharing the same bed. It was in those moments she began to plot her escape.”