The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.