“She smirks as she applies some Chap Stick on her lips.I'm jealous of a Chap Stick. There's a first.”
“Tiff needed the words on the page to become the voice in her head, her own voice, or an approximation of it, and she needed the paper and the sound of the scratch of her chapped fingertips against it as she fiddled with each page.”
“But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Moby Dick; Chap 7 p36)”
“Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.”
“But she knows she has a curse on her,a curse she cannot win.For if someone gets too close to her,the pins stick further in.”
“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”