“It feels like it's been a long day but it isn't even lunch time yet.”

“Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.”

“My exuberance isn't entirely food related. I have been so relieved to find that the city in and of itself is not enough to unlock the sadness or fear of my younger self. To the contrary, I have been unable to wipe the smile from my face since I arrived, giddy with a sense of survival. It's not even clear to me that that old misery is still even housed in my body anymore. I had been avoiding a monster behind a door for thirteen years, only to find that it had melted away long ago, nothing more than a spun-sugar bogeyman. It's definitely not the first time in my adulthood that I have realized this, but it never fails to cheer me to have it proven yet again that almost any age is better than twenty-two.”

“It feels like we’ve stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.”

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”

“It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.”

“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.”