“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”

“I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.”