Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.