naivete

She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.

When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.