Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.