“Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.”

“No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.”

“She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.”

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true. What they don’t tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

“You only get married the first time once.” There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence”

“By the time we met up again, she'd be able to hand her reaction to me as a tidy package: a single square of lasagna in a sealed Tupperware container as opposed to a squalid kitchen with tomato sauce splattered on the counters. And I wouldn't have to be there while she got it in order.”