Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

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.

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