We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. - Ellen Goodman

There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.