“Money doesn't buy taste, personality, or common decency.”
“I’m not sure I want to go to prom. I’m not sure I want to share you with anyone.”
“I was stuck in a life I didn't remember, squeezed into the shell of this girl - this Samantha Joe Franco - and the more I learned about her, the more I was starting to hate her.”
“I can’t believe it took me this long to be here with you.”
“I can’t believe you’re actually here. That you are with me.”
“Screw practice. Our relationship is more important than a damn practice.”
“Things aren’t perfect. They are far, far from it,but they are getting there, and I wasn’t looking back. Not when there were so many good things in the future.”
“I didn't recognize the name on the street sign. Nothing about the rural road looked familiar or friendly. Tall, imposing trees and overgrown weeds choked the front of the dilapidated home. Windows were boarded up. There was a gaping hole where the front door had been. I shivered, wanting to be far away from here… wherever here was.”
“Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not proud of it. Even though you didn’t have that damn necklace on, as far as I knew, you were still with Del. And I’m not big on making out with another guy’s girlfriend.”
“that this is what I wanted my marriage to be like? This cold, unfeeling, back and forth that has left nothing but resentment and hate? A husband is supposed to love, cherish, and protect his wife, not parade her around like arm”
“Do you think we are pyromaniacs?’” I snickered as I gazed at rising smoke…”
“Will Huxley’s Brave New World come true one day in all its improbability and chilling inhumanity?”
“offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.”
“For your penance," the Bishop said finally, "say three rosaries, one for each year of your sinful life, and offer them for the people you have harmed."
"That is not remotely enough," she snapped.
"Do you need also to confess doubts about the power of God to forgive sins?"
"Yes," she admitted after a few moments.
"In that case, for your penance, say only one rosary.”
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