You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.