“Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.”

“If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away”

“He fell in love with a skinny stray cat that would skulk around the dining hall during meals. Every day, Jake would offer it sausage or egg from breakfast and pepperoni or hamburger from lunch. Every day, it ran away from him. But Jake didn’t give up. Even when he had the stomach flu, he snuck out of the infirmary to try to feed it. He was not going to let it down. He would watch it from classroom windows. He even made up a poem about it that he sent home to his mother in a letter. Three months later, the little cat was finally hungry enough to trust him. It never occurred to Jake that the cat...”

“Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...”

“But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this.”

“When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.”

“Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.”