" She kisses him as though her life depended on it, even though she knows it doesn't. It depends on equal parts probability and luck. That's why she keeps throwing the fortune cookies into the glass bowl. No one can predict what will happen. On the night of the accident Shelby fastened her seat belt, something she did only three times out of ten. Helene was perched on the edge of her seat, too excited over their rock-throwing adventure to bother with her seat belt, which she fastened nine times out of ten. "
― Alice Hoffman , Faithful