People who seem to move through life with confidence aren’t confident about the outcome of a decision; they’re confident that they can deal with the outcome, good or bad.

She might have to use her employee discount to buy something more threatening today, although at the moment the most dangerous thing she could think of that Neiman Marcus had to offer was the employee discount itself.

Well,” Carole said, turning in her seat, “after being fingerprinted and being given a lie detector test, I’ll never complain again about going to the gynecologist.

All we can do is make the best decisions we can with the best information we have at that time and place. And learn how to rebound, reinvent, and regroup. Remember – people who seem to move through life with confidence aren’t confident about the outcome of a decision; they’re confident that they can deal with the outcome, good or bad.

If you tell someone you’re divorced they don’t even blink, but tell them you’ve never been married and they wonder what’s wrong with you.

She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mind--she'd never told her mother how much she loved her chocolate cupcakes... or Felicia what a kind friend she'd been... or Keith that it was cool and mature that he owned a house, even if it was in Brooklyn.

A lot of good the door did. The man's pheromones oozed through the keyhole and the crack underneath the panelled wood.

Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.

How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?

Tallie looked for something to throw, but considering the fact that she threw like a girl, she dumped that plan in lieu of grabbing her new iron and swinging it like a bowling ball between the bad man's legs, where it connected with a nauseating _thunk_.