“Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.”

“All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddys credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-...”

“Im still the same Chelsea Knot. Bow down, bitches.”

“I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.”

“I guess thats the thing about riding on cloud nineit cant last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.”

“I’m still the same Chelsea Knot. Bow down, bitches.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”