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.

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

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

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.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.