"I took the job managing Muddy's at a time when things with Marion has come all the way around, from her doing everything to please me to me doing everything to please her."
Chap. 1, p. 8

"I tried my best to make things work with Marion, to make her settle down and stay ... She moved out just before Franklin turned two, and she took him with her."
Chap. 1, p. 15

"It was her face, though, more than the lack of jobs, that troubled me. It was a tricky face as far as age was concerned. One minute I thought she was twenty, but when I caught her from another angle she had high school written all over her."
Chap. 2, p. 44

"Carl and Fay were the brother and sister in the fairy stories, the pretty white babies holding hands in the forest."
Chap. 3, p. 54

"She didn't understand. If she was wrong...