“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”

“It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.”

“We talked to each other as you'd talk to a stranger you'd met while drunk after the barman calls for last orders, sure you wouldn't remember the other's face in the morning. (69)”

“Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.”

“Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.”

“Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.”