I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

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.

Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.