"You're my girl, aren't you? You're my favorite girl in the whole world" (Chapter 1, pg. 46.)

"Can you imagine anyone being so generous? Wasn't I lucky?" (Chapter 1, pg. 79.)

"Listen, let me tell you-yes, he was my beau but- and that's the biggest but you've ever heard: He was my friend!" (Chapter 2, pg. 94.)

"I was just full of the joy of life and opportunity and wild desire to be absolutely fascinating" (Chapter 2, pg. 124.)

"My dear, the only interest I have in you is the money I can make out of you" (Chapter 3, pg. 169.)

"I think that this weakness went a long way toward ruining Howard's life and making him into an oddball" (Chapter 3, pg. 194.)

"You've got to dream up everything" (Chapter 3, pg. 224.)

"He is so tall a tree that the sun must shine on him whatever the tangle in the jungle below" (Chapter 3, pg. 259.)

"If you can't do it, dear...