Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

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?

You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

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.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together