Wear them, they will make you brave.

Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.

During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw three people file in through the center door and her breath caught. Time lapsed as they walked down the center aisle: three teenage girls all in a row. They were so big, so bright, so beautiful, so magnificent to Carmen’s eyes that she thought she was imagining them. They were like goddesses, like Titans. She was so proud of them! They were benevolent and they were righteous. Now, these were friends.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.