“With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.”

“...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.”

“But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was never moved by what I was doing (in an interview she said, "He writes his own material, I’m always telling him he needs a new writer")…”

“Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.”

“Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was self-contained, her tightly spinning magnetic energy oscillating around her. When in company, she had invisible tethers to anyone in the room: as they moved away, she pulled them in.”

“She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.”

“For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.”