“At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.”

“For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .”

“Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”

“She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”

“Sympathy for the spinster. I'm perfectly content, thank you. And I refuse to be defined by my boyfriend. Or lack of. Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”

“I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.”