“Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. ”
“I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.”
“I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.”
“When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . . ”
“Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.”
“Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”