“It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.”

“A well-worn marriage was like a shop-soiled currency note. Its only fault was that it had been in circulation for too long – it didn’t smell fresh, feel crisp to your fingers and fill you with a sense of possibilities as you held it in your hand, like a newly minted, fresh-from-the-press one did.”

“It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!”

“Trick-or-treating is for candy and demonstrations are for things like Peace and Freedom. It's different.”

“But that's what love is like when it's fresh and new. It's fire and thunder and heat.”

“the Secret Service trains its agents to identify counterfeit bills by having them handle every possible kind of real REAL bill. Old ones. New ones. Wrinkled ones. Freshly minted ones. Once you you are surounded by and you know what "real" is, it is easy to identify a fake. It's the same with people...”