For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

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

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

...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.

Work hard at . . . something.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.