They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.