“I think they've met before," she finally said."Who? Thibault and the loser?”
“You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.”
“I think maybe I know why,' she finally said.'Why?''Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.”
“I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.”
“I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble," she said. "They've certainly kept me humble.”
“Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?”