“People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.”

“These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.”

“People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.”

“She thought about Cheryl’s contention that this was young love, and about how she’d feel if they were ever to break up and she had to look back on this moment as an episode in a life that was full of people she didn’t even know now. The thought made her want to cry.”

“There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late”

“There was something else, she often told herself, that spring brought teachers. A sort of sadness--other people felt something like it, she supposed, at the end of the calendar year--a sadness that came from realizing that they hadn't kept the resolutions they had made in September. Resolutions to read more, to go to more concerts and plays, to get better acquainted in the community. They meant to do these things, and they usually hadn't, and they felt in the spring that they probably never would.”