"'What advice did she give for stopping a guy on the make?' 'You mean about what to do when things get out of control?' Maggie could tell when Liz Carstensen really wanted to know something because she would start tapping her fingers. 'Yes, stupid.' 'Well' - Maggie lowered her voice - 'Miss Fanuzzi's advice was that you're supposed to suggest going to get a hamburger."' Chapter 1, Page 7

"Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell? He had gotten trapped into dating a cousin's boyfriend's sister two months ago, and her house smelled like a mixture of mothballs and Mongolian incense. And his date for the junior prom was a friend of the sister of a girl in his History of America class, and her...