Teaser Tuesday (09-08-09 edition)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
  
• Open to a random page
  
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today's Teaser:

And I wondered: did the beard guy get to say what everyone here was supposed to do about every person in their lives? What if he told my mom it was it was better for her karma to get rid of me, leave me alone forever? Would she be strong and tell him no, or would she crumple like a stepped-on blade of grass?

-- Karma for Beginners by Jessica Blank, page 111