If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

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.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

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

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.