Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

Speak up,' says Myrna who has a fuzzy white caterpillar of a moustache. 'My hearing's not so good.' 'I WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD.' Liz turns to Thandi. 'I thought you said you didn't remember how you got the hole in your head.' Thandi apologizes. 'I just remembered.' 'Shot in the head!' Florence-scratchy-voice says. 'Oy, that's rough.' 'Aw, it's nothing special. Happens pretty regularly where I'm from,' Thandi says. 'WHAT?' asks Myrna with the moustache. 'Say it toward my left ear, that's the good one.' 'I SAID, "IT'S NOTHING SPECIAL,"' Thandi yells/

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.