“In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.”

“It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.”

“She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.”

“All really interesting girls invent themselves.”

“Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient.”

“Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.”

“Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.”