There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.