Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.