“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
“The ladies’ fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.”
“If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.”
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
“Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”
“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”