"For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again."
"The victor belongs to the spoils."
"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."
"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."
"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."