Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.

What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.