“And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”

“Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”

“She raised her chin and her pale, black-fringed eyes sparkled in the moonlight. Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.”

“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”

“You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming"-Rhett Butler”

“She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers. ”

“If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.”