These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.