Grace Metalious

“Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.”

“If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was true that God always acted in one's best interest, you would receive whatever He wanted you to receive anyway.Prayer, thought Allison, was a dreadfully unfair, rather unsportsmanlike affair, with all the advantages on one side.”

“To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.”

“I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.”

“It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer and more sharply edged than any other.”

“Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?”