As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.

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

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

The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

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

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.

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