Silver Girl Quotes
"Sail on Silvergirl, Sail on by, Your time has come to shine, All your dreams are on their way, See how they shine."
"It’s amazing how Wolf’s death has put everything into two categories: before Wolf died and after Wolf died."
"We're changing our last name." - "You should, too."
"But overshadowing these developments: she had forgotten to call her daughter."
"I have faith that I can finish the buildings," he said.
"He loved her but not enough to fight the disease."
"Connie hadn’t spoken to her daughter since ten days after Wolf’s funeral."
"You think Daddy didn’t want to fight because he found out you were gay?"
"It was like drinking juice, Toby said. It was like drinking milk."
"Late for my own funeral," Veronica used to say.
"I think the highlight was watching you dive!"
"That was fun! Of course, I used to be much better."
"I knew nothing about his crimes, and neither did my sons."
"You’re an accomplished diver, you can cast a fishing line… does the world know this about you?"
"You’ll take care of him," Mrs. Delinn said. "You’ll love him. He’ll pretend like he can get along without it, but he can’t. Freddy needs his love."
"I thought you’d be a society bitch. A fallen society bitch."
"You have a lot on your plate," Meredith said. "Emotionally speaking."
"I forgot to put in the potatoes," Connie said.
"We lived in a sublet of a man named Thad Orlo."
"Freddy told me that Thad Orlo had stayed on with the bank in Switzerland."
"I don’t. Freddy most certainly does, even though he lied and told me he didn’t."
"We can’t both be basket cases. We have the boys to think about."
"You’re afraid of me, or of intimacy, or the idea of intimacy."
"But I’m not ready for someone who’s not ready. Does that make sense?"
"It’s my daughter, too. My daughter doesn’t speak to me."
"You’ll find another wife. But the boys will never have another mother."
"I’m taking the children. And I’m going to my mother’s."
"You’re not going anywhere. You’re going to stay right here, and I’ll make things better."
"But I don’t take it for granted. I fell off the wagon once, early on."
"The evil combination of Marlowe Jones and the Treaty of Paris."
"Well, I’m spending the night at Dan’s house. He asked me, and I said yes."
"I have found a dead sea mammal on my front porch."
"I’m taking the children," she said. "And I’m going to my mother’s."
"Because of the incident with Harold, her date with Dan had been overshadowed. But now she grew warm just thinking about it—Dan at dinner, holding her hand; Dan in bed, bringing her back to life."
"It means yes, there’s someone, but I don’t know what’s what yet, okay?"
"I never met the guy. I think that was probably by design."
"She’s trying to figure out what to do. She’s under investigation, I guess; she talks to her lawyer all the time. But the thing is… she’s still Meredith."
"We only have three million in our account. That’s a drop of water in the ocean of Delinn Enterprises. Freddy won’t even notice."
"The days zipped by. Connie spent nearly every night at Dan’s house."
"She wanted to be knocked out, unconscious, unaware, unreachable, untouchable."
"You’re never going to leave me, Meredith, right? Promise me. No matter what?"
"I knew that ‘champ’ was Samantha. That was what Freddy called her. But I didn’t know they were sleeping together."
"I can’t answer any of those questions. I don’t know what I’m doing."
"I have been informed that my husband, Fred Delinn, who is serving one hundred and fifty years in federal prison for his financial crimes, had been conducting an affair with our decorator, Samantha Champion Deuce, for over six years. This news has come as a profound shock."
"I want to hear about it from my husband. I want him to confess to me. I want to hear the truth from him."
"Once I show you the basics, you can do this with any vegetable: broccoli, asparagus, carrot, tomato, mushroom."
"What song would you send out to Freddy?" "I don’t know," Meredith said. "‘I Will Survive’?"
"I’m going to sit in the sun," she said. "You know, we only have nine days left."
"I never want to leave here." "You don’t have to," Connie said. "You know you don’t have to go anywhere."
"I think we’ve found our man," he said. "And our woman."
"Thank God you answered," he said. "I tried a second ago and no one answered."
"So I’m not in trouble anymore?" Meredith said. "I can call my children?"
"This summer, Connie had carried Meredith on her back once again. She had carried Meredith all the way to safety."
"I almost lit a candle for myself in there," Meredith said, nodding at the church. "But then I realized I didn’t need to."
"She couldn’t seem to abandon him. No matter what."
"Dunbar’s number," Meredith said, reading from her anthropology notebook. "It says here that human beings can have stable social relationships with a maximum of one hundred and fifty people."