“She's trollin' for a breadwinner and uses a short skirt for bait.”

“Hell and furies!" Eleanor had begun to pace, her skirts swirling about her ankles. "What was he thinking?""When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wine cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.”

“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”

“A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. "I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you.”

“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”

“As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to makefriends with the quietness of our sensations.”

“But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her performance fell short of perfection. They were less a mortification, she feared, than an actual statement of fact: B+ is all you deserve.”