You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

But it was smell that carried memory.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.