“Time. Aching like a bruise, pounding like a heart. ”

“Even if things are common, there's more than one side to them. There's more than one side to one-sided things. One-sided people too.”

“What a gift! To control the uncontrollable. To be loved. To own love. To own a love.”

“Beat on the doors until you get what you want. Beat on the walls until your fists bleed.”

“Let the two cross-tops and junk gin and four no-filter Camels make your heart pound.”

“It still is on the run,time that is.Sometimes it seems like everything’s changing;my whole world is rearranging.Everything’s different,and yet everything’s the same.Time is just a crazy game.”

“As he talked, I watched Emma and wondered what is to become of her. She is of an age to be married but she spends her time with people who are so much older than she, that she is never likely to meet a husband. And if she does, I do not know if she will wish to marry. She is too comfortable where she is. Her father is easy to please and she can do as she likes with the household. A husband will have his own views, and Emma is not likely to take to that way of living.”