" Oh, wait, I meant to ask . . . What were you and Patrick Hughes talking about last night?”
“Oh. That. Patrick was ‘jokingly’”—he makes air quotes around the word—“asking for your hand in marriage. I ‘jokingly’”—those air quotes again—“told him that he better get his act together or stay the hell away from my daughter. "

― Kristi Cook , Magnolia (Magnolia Branch, #1)