Quotes from Cathie Pelletier

Who the hell ain't dysfunctional these days? When the Kennedys straighten out, then maybe the rest of us should worry.

The big television crouched in the shadowy beam of the porch light. Mattie could see its black, open face, and she felt as though she were looking into the mouth of a deep, dangerous cave.

Mattie felt drained, as though someone had stood her on her head and poured her entire heart and soul right out of her body.

The world was an awful place, too awful to live in, if people could kill a President so easily.

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.