" It’s just you miss the reckless girl who lived here. Petulant funny stubborn blind unforgiving little wench, beholden to no one, blindly enacting her will on everything, everyone. She was nobody’s mother. It was your youth! Now you’re older and wiser and better in about a thousand ways. "

― Sari Botton , Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York