Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.