“Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.”

“I heartily respect and appreciate when people say their life is quite eventful. There are chapters in the book of life. Some chapters interests people and some grab only our attention in simple little stanzas.”

“Sometimes I ask to sneak a closer look, skip to the final chapter of the book”

“Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.”

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”

“Katherine stared intently at the cold, hard steel. She knew it would be loaded and that, if need be, there was extra ammunition in the back of the drawer. She would not be one of those girls, the ones who sit idly by and wait for the answers to come to them.”