“There's no point worrying when it does little to change the outcome.”

“Chris ordered Greek Chicken, no butter no salt, and I decided to splurge on a hamburger. To which my mama took the opportunity to point out that I could eat whatever I wanted and not get fat. She never believed me when I said I watched what I ate and exercised on the regular. “Her daddy was the same way. Straight up and down. Course she got the tits that he ain’t have.”

“Unbelievable! You are unbelievable! First you ruin my life and then you blame it on my period!”

“The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.”

“There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.”

“Bess hadn't ever been good with change. She'd never been good with taking leaps of faith, or risks or changes. When something worked, she tended to stick with it.Even when something didn't.”

“We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.”