“Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.”

“Romeo and Juliet, say they didn’t die but Juliet got pissed and took off. Everyone would know it was Romeo and Juliet, would always be Romeo and Juliet, even if later Romeo hooked up with Nancy. No one ever heard of Nancy, doesn’t even sound right, Romeo and Nancy. Everyone knows Romeo’s meant to be with Juliet. Even if Romeo loved Nancy, Nancy would always know she was never Juliet”

“God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.”

“But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties, there is no hurry.”

“Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.”

“My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do.”