She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

You're going to blow his socks off!

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.