Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.

Friends are the support bras of life.