In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.