I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.