"Assuming he’s not too mature to travel, I’d want to schedule it for the end of August before the summer people leave. He’ll sell more books that way." - P136
"Well . . . Lots of reasons, actually. Your dad is not exactly a catch." - P135
Actual Leon Friedman looks somewhere between old Ernest Hemingway and a department store Santa Claus: big red nose and belly, bushy white beard, twinkly eyes. - P139
Amelia’s mother, who is the size of a grasshopper and has the personality of a praying mantis, says, "Perhaps Mr. Friedman is trying to say that a relationship based on loving a book is not likely to be much of a relationship." - P144
A smartly dressed woman of about Amelia’s age, opens her capacious leather handbag. "I might have one." - P146
Amelia pauses to look at the woman. She has long brown hair, well cut and super straight. Her purse probably costs as much as Amelia’s car. - P150
"A long time ago, a girl wrote a novel, and she tried to sell it, but no one wanted it. It was about an old man who lost his wife, and it didn’t have supernatural beings in it or a high concept to speak of, and so she thought it would be easier if she retitled the book and called it a memoir." - P151
"No, it isn’t. All the things in it are still emotionally true even if they aren’t literally so." - P152
"The book had already flopped. And sometimes you want to know . . . to see for yourself that your work has meant something to someone." - P152
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