“Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so . . . .”

“Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go.”

“But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the characters and the scenes in your mind. You don't have that with a movie. It's all either up there on the screen laid out for you, or it isn't there at all.”

“What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?”

“They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable.”

“Most of us walk through our daily lives as if we were asleep. We regard not what is before our eyes. We see not how we construct fantasies of our own and others' intentions without having the smallest knowledge of what we, or they, are truly about. We are all imaginists, storytellers if you will, and the pity is that none of us recognizes his sorry state.”

“But I do know that any place where there are six novels by the author of Pride and Prejudice must be a very special sort of heaven.”