“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”

“I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.”

“Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”

“I’m going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life.”

“If I had to explain what Zane was for me he would be the edge pieces of the puzzle. He is what holds me together, but not what defines me.”

“I don't want to have to save your life,' Chord says softly. 'Not when you can do it.”

“If I didn't laugh, I'd rip out my hair, one graying strand at a time.”