"I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it."

“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.”

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“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”

“There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.”

“A must have for women? Confidence! Be yourself!”

“As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.”

“She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.”

“I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold of making it to the NBA start getting preoccupied in their thoughts elsewhere more than concerning themselves with the present. The junior class is the perfect age.”

“Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it...”