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.

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.

A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.