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

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

What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

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

THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.