To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.

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

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

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.