Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

- Tears don't become us. - What becomes us? - Action.

Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?