“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.”

“The little Durands were there, I conclude," said she, "with their mouths open to catch the music; like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed. They never miss a concert.”

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”

“Bubba said something about Willowdean having a stalker,” Miz Demetrice said.“A stalker?” Aunt Caressa repeated as if she was unfamiliar with the word.“You know, someone who follows you around, sends you cards, dead flowers, and turns up unwanted,” Miz Demetrice said. “Oh, you mean kind of like a Republican,” Aunt Caressa Concluded.”

“You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.”

“No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.”