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“ ‘I’m not this unusual,’ she said. ‘It’s just my hair.’ …

I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life.”

“Few fates are wholly disagreeable. If they were, we might do a better job of evading them.”

“I could have murdered him, though his only crimes were lack of focus and dearth of wit. I could have skewered his heart with a kitchen fork because he was a peripheral character promoted to a role he was ill equipped to play.”