"If you are different from a person everyone agrees is wonderful, it means you are somehow wrong." Page 17

"'You' - he said, throwing a book atop the pile - 'have' - and then my running shoes - 'a Harvard education' - then my loafers - 'but' - and the glass of orange juice rolled unbroken atop the mess, soaking the shoes - 'you have no heart.'" Page 23

"'I remember this book. I was reading it when I met your father. I remember admiring it but being a little put off by it too, because it does that cheap thing that people do, it makes the sister who is sweet and domestic and good a second fiddle to the one who is smart and outspoken. Jane and Elizabeth. I remember them now. It didn't seem fair to me, that Jane was so good and yet Elizabeth is the...