"The Best of Everything"

[fiefoe]

Guess who I identify with more, Caroline or April:

• Fifteen years of school, fifteen years of routine and in- taking and growing and being taught to seek, and finding. All of a sudden graduation, and the discovery that the limitless walls of books are really a cloister.
• "But if it happened to me," Caroline said, "then it's part of me. It is me. And the things I think-they're what made all the things that did or didn't happen to me important."
• She had never noticed these little things so much before, and she was glad she did now because they made life easier, and sorry too, because, of course, when you are more demanding life is never easier.
• "All of a sudden the world seems to be made of all different layers of feelings, happy, scared, romantic and very very ordinary, and you feel them all at once. I've been feeling like that for the past two weeks." "Don't worry," Caroline said, "I've been feeling that way all my life."
  

• He stood up. "I have to go to New York anyway. I live there." "We're neighbors..." April breathed.
• Now she belonged, to New York, to herself, but most of all to Dexter.
  
• "Well, I'm not going to think that he can't until it actually happens," said April. "That way I'd suffer twice. If I pretend he will be with me and then he disappoints me, I'll only suffer once."
  

<Apt: >
__ That didn't give her any more right to be a successful actress, she realized, than cutting out recipes gave one a right to be a chef at the Waldorf.
__ People always think that a girl who looks like her is strong and particular and lucky with men. What a lot of nonsense! It's like wearing armor made of Christmas wrapping.

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