"When I say I am a perfectionist, what I am really doing is just giving my fear of failure a pretty label. Perfectionist. Instead of insecure. Perfectionist. Instead of fearful."
Susan Stearns, in Crazy Tuesdays
"Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you."
"Arthur," in Wedding Night: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella