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

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.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.

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.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.