“When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.”
“Good friends are like appendages. It's painful to lose one, and crippling to lose two or more.”
“There was something so . . . stalwart about Ben. I'd only known him two days and he'd managed to infuriate me most of that time. But there I was, protected by the curve of his arm, and grateful for it. And not just because it for nice, though it did.”
“In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.”
“For the moment, I’m just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.”