Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.

— Holly Hood

Never been more truthful than right now, looking at you fixes everything.

— Holly Hood

Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here. Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke. Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.

— Holly Hood

Nona needs a very dry martini.

— Holly Hood

Nona was as wacky as they came.

— Holly Hood

One, you moved here with your father, which means you're a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.

— Holly Hood

People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days.

— Holly Hood

Sam studied his brother. At one time he thought Frankie had a good head on his shoulders. Sure, he had a temper. And he was conceited. But he always used common sense. But now he wasn’t so sure if that were true. He had brought him his lifeless fiancé. Like a dog dragging in a dead rabbit looking for praise.

— Holly Hood

Satan impregnated my mother one lovely spring morning. We didn’t have the heart to tell my father.

— Holly Hood

She didn’t need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren’t necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn’t control them like she once thought.

— Holly Hood