“She did not use it at all well mostly.”
“It wasn't that Mattie didn't believe in God. She did, she most surely did. She just didn't like some of the things He did, is all.”
“Everything was so nutty with Loretta, all her reactions. She used tantrums like most people used sedatives”
“It was all very well being told that she could do nothing to make things better. Neverfell did not have the kind of mind that could take that quietly. She did not have the kind of mind that could be quiet at all.”
“... and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.”
“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?”