“What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind.”

“Anyway, no guy wants to be with a girl if she's not into him. So you did him a favor.”

“How she wished she had Elizabeth to herself for a little so they could discuss what Henry's real intentions were and also how high and mighty Penelope had acted at lunch and what a tremendous insult it was that she'd come at all and did anyone really think she was beautiful with those oversize features anyway.”

“It didn't really matter that we couldn't understand each other, what mattered were those little smiles and nods that said so much more than words.”

“It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour: it was her vocabulary!”

“She remembered telling a sturdy little girl in guidance that looks did not matter, that personality was much more important. What rubbish we tell children [...].”