“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.”

“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”

“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”

“She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.”

“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”

“It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.”

“There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.”

“A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.”

“She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.”

“She wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones.
Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.”