In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?

Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN

You must do what you enjoy.

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.