“You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.”

“Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?”

“People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.”

“You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.”

“Somehow you drift along on the river, and one dayyou wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want tobe, with someone you realize you don’t know.”

“You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.”

“You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.”