“Uh. . . why does your partner keep saying 'ing.' Mr Pin?"..."Speech impediment.' said Pin.”
“Tais-toi. Your glove. Madame Erskine, procure me a large pin,’ said the Queen Dowager of Scotland. ‘I have yet to meet a man who can lay hands on a pin when there is need for it.”
“See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.”
“Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.”
“But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him”
“Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.”