“I already feel like the Girl Who Lived around here.”

“I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter.“I pictured you,” he said. “I just didn’t know what you looked like.“And then, when I did know what you looked like, you looked like the girl who was all those things. You looked like the girl I loved.”

“I haven't felt like part of the living world these last years. I go out and walk around, but it's hard when you feel the best times of your life have happened already. —Eloise Munn”

“She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.”

“How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.”

“I’m not really beautiful,’ she said to herself, ‘but tonight I feel beautiful. And I look like a girl who feels beautiful.' (84)”