She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?

You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

See the good in people and help them.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.