“I can’t tell you how liberating that feeling would come to be, in every aspect of my life: ‘I’m doing the best I can do today.‘” – pg. 91
“I was learning that in choosing your own path, you can go wildly off course.” – pg. 203
“I wanted to do more of the job I lived for.” – pg. 227
“L’esprit de l’escalier – ‘the spirit of the staircase’ – [is] the French term for thinking of what to say after you’ve already left the party.” – pg. 275
