A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.

It was a kiss from the past.

Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.