“Yes, it's hard to start seeing your mother as she is, hard to push aside all the resentment and anger that you may feel and see her as another woman. Hard, but worth every bit of the effort.” — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“Wags couldn't make it through the night without creeping over to Tory and whimpering that she had to use the ladies' room. So Tory… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“Life on the road was just boring. They would land at an airport and take a taxi to the hotel. There they would sit… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“You didn't have parents or society telling you that you should love one another because you were brothers, you just did it by yourselves.… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“beauty contests, she said seriously, they gave out scholarship awards. "It's the biggest scholarship program in the world—they told us that at the Miss… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“She was down to three customers, all sitting at one table. There had never been more than a handful this evening, and Tory had… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“He knew why he was angry. Tory got angry when she cared; he got angry when he felt powerless. At Christmas, he had come… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“Yes, it's hard to start seeing your mother as she is, hard to push aside all the resentment and anger that you may feel… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“It was nice, them having this kind of knowledge about each other. No one else knew this about him. She supposed in every person… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“If I remember correctly, I called you an asshole doctor." "That's no more than the truth... except I'm not a proctologist.” — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“Among a certain type of creative men, there was a history of strong, if difficult friendships. From Wordsworth and Coleridge to John Belushi and… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“you also need rehearsal clothes and sitting-around-scaring-the-other-contestants clothes. I showed up in Atlantic City with eleven suitcases and twenty-three pairs of shoes.” — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“Listen, Joe, is your offer to oh and ah over my presents still good?" "Sure." "Then give me a minute to close up and… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“You're not making too much of this. You will love her until the stars fall. She looked like a figure in a hand-tinted woodcut… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“You sure did break that boy's heart." "I know," Krissa agreed. She didn't mind Jewel saying that. At least someone in this house had… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
“Tory was starting to feel a little foolish standing here with her hands in the air. It was like the whole bar had assembled… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
