“That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.The girls of 1929.”

“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”

“Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.”

“It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.”

“All really interesting girls invent themselves.”

“Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?""If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have to go ho...”

“Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.”

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, runningthat's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the b...”

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”