It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

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.

She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.