I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.

- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.