Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.