“Miss Marva's driving technique was at best creative, and at worst she was an accident waiting to happen.”

“A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.”

“What are their names? Psycho and Killer?"He shook his head. "Cupcake and Twinkie."My mouth dropped open. "You're kidding."A grin flitted across his lips. "Afraid not."If naming them after dessert snacks had been Miss Marva's attempt to make them seem cute, it wasn't working.”

“No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.”

“It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -''There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.”

“She could love him, if she let it happen. Deeply, passionately, ruinously.”

“...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.”