“I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back."

"You ran away, Katarina."
"And now I'm back."

"You're still running.”

“It's time that glamour came back, everything has got a little bit beige in the last two years, I say bring back black!”

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”

“I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know…”

“The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away. But when people left they always came back.”

“It was the greatest learning summer of my whole life, but then came the fall, and I was told that I’d have to go back to school again. “NO WAY, JOSÉ!” I screamed, because I now knew that at school they were trying to “break” us, not “amanzar” us.”

“damn my intuition here it goes
wish i didn’t know the things I know
you're backing off from me
i saw it happening
the moment she came back to you”

“While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone.”

“For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.”

“Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries.”