“So she did the English thing. She changed the subject.”

“People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)”

“She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.”

“You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.”

“Manhattan was kaleidoscopic. Cubist. Just when she was feeling one way, the seasons changed, and so did she.”

“For those she liked she did things; to those she didn't like she did other things.”