“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart...”

“Your heart can break at any age.”

“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”

“Hope like that, as I thought before, doesnt make you a weak person. Its hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how ...”

“at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than youve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be a...”

“At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2...”

“For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life ...”

“So none of the young men we encountered during our season gave you hot pants for them?Belinda! Your language. I've been mingling with Americans. Such fun. So Naughty.”

“There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.”