“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.”

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

“The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.”

“…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.”

“All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.”