Lillian Simmons

You could tell the waiter didn't like her much, you could tell even the Navy guy didn't like her much, even though he was dating her. And I didn't like her much. Nobody did.

It was funny, watching her block up the whole goddamn traffic in the aisle. But she was so phony I felt almost sorry for her in a way. She wasn't a goddamn witch or anything but nobody liked her much at all. And she didn't even know it. She just kept at it with her phony as hell comments like "In Hollywood! How marvelous! What's he doing?"

But you can't hate a person like that too much, when they don't mean much harm. They just don't know how to talk right, they think they gotta act all phony. I just hope one day they learn how to carry a normal conversation without using marvelous or grand every goddamn second.