“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”

“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”

“you know, all spider-like and mother fucking huge and hairy, he made up for with how he behaved and how he treated me.”

“More in-betweens: late afternoon, early spring, adolescence, falling in love. She hated the in-betweens. Always, she just wanted to get where she was going – to be there already, She was almost paralyzed by the in-betweenness. She didn’t know how she was supposed to behave.”

“Knowing those things are going to kill you," she said, "and still you do it.""How differently I might behave," Tom said, "if immortality were an option.”

“Treat her like a princess if she behaves like royalty.”