Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.

Hurried business is bad business.