“A cry for help that only Ma and someone else’s apple pie—” because Christ knows Ma can’t bake “—can fix.”
“...and remember: There's no crying in pie baking. -The Bake-Off”
“He was so close it was hard to breathe. It was exactly like being next to an oven baking a really spicy apple pie.”
“I'm going through hell," I cried, "and Steve wants me to be thankful he baked a pie." (272)”
“Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop.”
“Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.”