“My yardstick is how somebody treats me.”

“How silly, my dear; don't you know that if I came here as a child, then most of me never left?”

“It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.”

“I'll never disgrace myself. And I swear, it never crossed my mind about Holly. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.”

“You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.”

“Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.”

“all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.”