“She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.”

“If fact, she mothers with such patience and grace that she's elegant, timelessly elegant. Ironically enough, one might even say that she has become forever elegant after all.”

“It should have been awkward. They’d taken their relationship from casual to over-the-top intimate in six-point-two seconds, without all the typical steps in between.But all Dani could think, wrapped in Carter’s arms, was that finally she was right where she was supposed to be.”

“She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance, ease, but not elegance... Her person was rather good; her face not unpretty; but neither feature nor air, nor voice, nor manner were elegant.”

“Hi,” Piper said, as casually as she could. “We’re back.”

“She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.”