What is some of Ashley Peterson's dialogue in Tell Me Your Dreams?

Sidney Sheldon uses dialogue extensively in Tell Me Your Dreams. Ashley Peterson, the novel’s protagonist, becomes concerned that she is being stalked. The early part of the novel uses extensive flashbacks that reveal her earlier relationship with a high school boyfriend, Jim Cleary, and her father’s disapproval. When she learns that her father has decided they are moving to England, she has a scene with Jim, who asks the sobbing girl,

“What is it? What’s happened?”
“My—my father told me he’s taking me away to London. He’s registered me in—in a college there.”
Jim Cleary looked stunned. “This is because of us, isn’t it?”
Ashley nodded, miserable.
“When do you leave?”
“Tomorrow.”

He suggests that they run away together, taking the train from Pennsylvania to Chicago, and get married. She sneaks out of her house that night and waits for him at the train station, but he never shows up. She moves to London.
In the current era, Ashley realizes that she needs further information about the subject, she goes to a bookstore. (The novel takes place in the pre-internet era). In response to the clerk’s questions, Ashley becomes embarrassed and tries to mask her purpose.

“Yes. I–Do you have a book about stalkers?”
He was looking at her strangely. “Stalkers?”
Ashley felt like an idiot. She said quickly, “Yes—I also want a book on gardening and—and—animals of Africa.”
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