“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”

“I went through a lot of changes in the years from when I first started out.”

“Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?"
"They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.”

“When you get a lot of success in your career, you start believing that you can never go wrong. But I had a massive fall.”

“You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks”

“We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father’s unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.”

“Love is like a chilly wind. You are unlikely to tell when it started and when it's going to end.”

“Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?"
I do face facts," Meg said.
They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.”

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

“You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all, sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that.”