“In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.”

“The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.”

“Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN”

“The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.”

“She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.”

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it”

“And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.”