“... I had been brought to boil twice with no pasta.”
“How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?”
“When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.”
“A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.”
“She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it”
“It's been very clearly brought to my attention that I had overlooked your security in public restrooms.”