“There is a certain type of person who just won't be happy unless she lives in New York at least once in her life.”

“Inside an old man is always a young man, a young man shaped by his friends.”

“Sometimes, despite everything, enchantment still revealed itself slyly through cracks in the everyday.”

“...the character's failure to move with the times leads to death, suggesting the anachronistic nature of this [hyper/stereotypical] type of masculinity.”

“Dear God,how can I live a vanilla life when I'm a strawberry girl?”

“The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors and then retreating for hours, days, and making us all ache for just a glimpse.”

“Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?”