Janine

“She tried to control herself rigidly, saying to herself, "I won't look at him for another half hour." But all to no avail. She would sneak a glimpse, his eyes would flicker, and there she would be again, imprisoned by an amused smile and a raised eyebrow.”
― Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

“She cried because at last it hit her that time only moves in one direction, no matter how hard we wish it wasn't so.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“All of my joys have been pulled out of my mouth like teeth. All my home is nothing but sadness and silence and ruin and memory. I have been reduced, I am my own ghost, all my own beauty and youth have shrilled away, there are no illusions of happiness to impel me. Life is a prison of poverty and aborted dreams, it is nothing but a slow progress to my place beneath the soil.”
― Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

“Boys get to keep that confidence [as they age], I think; girls have to give it back like it never really belonged to them.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary