“Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heard clearly in the dreams of later years.”

“But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.”

“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.”

“She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory.She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.”

“For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...”

“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

“Later on in life, you might wish that the good things which all befall in your one special year had spread themselves out a little more.”