When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?
Julian BarnesPerhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
Julian BarnesTime...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
Julian Barnes