“FIDLAR!”

“No matter where you are or what you're doing throughout the day, your heart should always be at home.”

“Getting involved with someone was complicated enough, but with the boss’s daughter? Probably not a good idea.”

“I do nothing all day, but I am tired. Lethargy has settled into me. I feel slack and languid. Does this mean I am starting to accept this life?”

“Samantha, you're in my world now. We have standards here."-Jesse”

“Paper MatchesMy aunts washed dishes while the unclessquirted each other on the lawn withgarden hoses. Why are we in here,I said, and they are out there?That’s the way it is,said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one.I have the rages that small animals have,being small, being animal.Written on me was a message,“At Your Service,”like a book of paper matches.One by one we were taken outand struck.We come bearing supper,our heads on fire.”

“And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with someone, without reservation or holding back, was good for the heart. For its valves and its arteries and that invisible shadow of the heart called the soul. Falling in love was good for the soul.”