Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.

It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)

The appetites of the body were private battles.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.