“A girl only gets married once, after all. Only once for the first time, that is.”

“You can't count on anyone else for your happiness, nor blame them for your misery.”

“Find your happiness, Miss. It's out there, for anyone with the courage to follow it, no matter how many twists and turns the path might take.”

“A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.”

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

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

“That was the way things were. It was like she was mad all the time. Not how a kid gets mad quick so that soon it is all over - but in another way. Only there was nothing to be mad at. Unless the store. But the store hadn’t asked her to take the job. So there was nothing to be mad at. It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.”