You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.