“The girl might be gorgeous under normal circumstances, but she was an ugly crier.”

“No one likes an ugly crier. It's uncomfortable for all parties involved.”

“Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.”

“It's not fair that the gorgeous get more gorgeous when they're pissed, while the ugly only get more hideous. ”

“Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim could fall in love with. She wasn’t what she’d made herself out to be — a cheerful, uncomplicated girl, a normal girl with a happy, orderly life, a girl who wore pretty shoes and had nothing more pressing on her mind that whether ER was a rerun this week. The truth was in the exercise tape she didn’t have time to unwrap, let alone exercise to; the truth was her hairy legs and ugly underwear. Most of all, the truth was her sister, her gorgeous, messed-up, fantastically unhappy and astoundingly irresponsible sister.”

“She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.”