“Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.”
“They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.”
“Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago...”
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
“Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.”
“I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).”