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“Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the idea of her tired old self changed by ever new...”
“One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.”
“Slowly the sky turned from the color of cornflower to that of hyacinth, and the Ferris wheel at Coney Island appeared like a ring of diamonds against the twilight. New York-that city made of canyon...”
“What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....”
“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.”
“Do not go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.”
“In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.”
