Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.

He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.