Bob Dylan
- It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Leave your stepping stones behind - something calls for you. Forget the debt you've left - they will not follow you. The vagabond who's rapping at your door is standing in the clothes that you once wore. Strike another match - go start anew, 'cause it's all over now, Baby Blue.
J. D. Salinger
- Zooey, from 'Franny and Zooey'
My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man anymore and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddam preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head.
Virginia Woolf
- Clarissa thinking of Sally, From 'Mrs. Dalloway'
For in those days she was completely reckless; did the most idiotic things out of bravado; bicycled around the parapet on the terrace; smoked cigars. Absurd, she was - very absurd. But the charm was overpowering...