“I seek wisdom to justify my ignorance”

“I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.”

“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

“If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?”

“What the hell happened to you?" she demanded. "What took so long?""My car got towed.""Okay, but why did you swim here?""I walked. It just happens to be a hundred and fifty-seven degrees outside.”

“In the end, I just engaged in a staring contest with the wall. The wall kept winning, but I felt like I was gaining on it.”

“I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.”