Quotes from book

Let It Snow

“Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.”

“It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking”

“Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.”

“Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.”

“There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.”

“Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be… Christmas is a state of mind.”

“Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.”

“Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.”

“I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours.”

“It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.”

“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”

“We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.”

“Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.”

“Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked.
The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.”

“We study there a lot because… what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.”

“These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.”

“One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.”

“I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with”