When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.