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.

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.

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

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.

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

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

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