You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.
Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.
It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?
Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.
Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.
Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. . . . This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
You owe me!" -Stephanie "Why do I owe you?" -Joe "I caught your no good cousin. " -Stephanie "Yeah and in the process you burned down a funeral home, and damaged thousands of dollars of government property. " -Joe "Well if you are going to be picky about it. . . . " -Stephanie
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described. . . Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.