“She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.”
“Oh, this was champ. She’d found herself a Savage prince. Don’t laugh, she told herself. Don’t laugh, Aria.”
“She likes herself, yet others hates / For that which in herself she prizes; And, while she laughs at them, forgets / She is the thing that she despises.”
“She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.”
“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
“She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.”