So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

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

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