“Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him.The other half were men and didn't count.”

“She'd half loved men, and they'd half failed her.”

“Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.”“Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.”

“You dance like you don't give a flying taquito what anyone thinks.""Flying what?""You're just so... into it, Half the school wishes they were you, and the other half wished they loved something as much as you love dance.”

“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”

“Love is real and real love lasts. I used to feel sorry for people who didn't believe in it--the people who were lonely with someone else or lonely along. For awhile I was was one of the lucky ones.”