“She would always come second best to George Washington in Aaron’s heart.”
“: “[George] Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint.”
“Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.”
“...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.”
“He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.”
“Dangerous, she thought, this was so dangerous. Too many pieces of her in his hands. She had to hold something back, some part of her that would protect her against the nights she woke to find him lying awake, a faraway expression on his face. Because it would happen—no matter the passionate tenderness growing ever deeper between them, she was second best, would always be second best.”