Late to the Party Quotes

“my youth is infinite but my fears are intimate”
― Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

“I think saying what you're afraid of makes you brave.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

“And I think being friends with someone should be like the concept of infinity—like you truly believe that person has no limits, and you just want to keep counting upward with them to see where they go.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

“You grow up with these ideas about Teenagers, about their wild, vibrant, dramatic lives of breaking rules and making out and Being Alive, and you know that it’s your destiny to become one of them someday, but suddenly you’re seventeen and you’re watching people cannonball into a swimming pool in the pouring rain, and you realize you still haven’t become a real Teenager, and maybe you never will.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

“Everybody’s cool in their own way, once you give them the chance to show you.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party