“If you're scared, do something.”

“I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.”

“How do you ever hold on to anybody?”

“Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.”

“The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.”

“I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.”

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived...”

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, ki...”

“Och, they suit you, Queenie! Promise me you'll wear them.”

“He paused and manufactured a chuckle.”

“September laughed and her laugh sounded like a roar; as if she had never been able to properly laugh in her whole life, only giggle or chuckle or grin, and now that she could do it right, now that ...”

“He paused and manufactured a chuckle.”