“Don't go looking for boys in the dark
They will say pretty things then
leave you with scars.
Do go looking for boys in the park
For that is where the true gentlemen are.”
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...”
“There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”
“I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.”
“As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.”
“It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.”
“The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.”
“She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.”
“Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.”
“Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.”
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color...”
“Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.”
“We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.”
“Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.”
“A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.”
“Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.”
“Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient.”
“Sé cruel, hermanita, o el mundo te tratará con crueldad.”
“It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.”
“Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.”
“Don’t go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are. ––A SEAMSTRESS’S VERSES, 1898”
“Villains often come with pretty faces.”
“Do not go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.”
“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”
“I turned and bumped my head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.”
“His mother is wishing her boy would come home."
Lots of mothers wishing that these days,
while their sons walk to California,
where rain comes,
and the color green doesn't seem like such a miracle,
and hope rises daily, like sap in a stem.”
“Like most blacks in Philadelphia, Eliza was free. She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans.”
“Isn’t she small for a Valkyrie?” she asked. He realized Kaderin could hear them as well when she sat up straighter. The corners of his lips curled. He loved how small she was compared to him, how fine she was, and yet he’d been unable to express that to her. She was so elegantly built but stronger than he’d ever imagined a female could be. “They’re all small and fey. It’s a biological advantage,” the woman explained. “You never quite believe what they can bring to a fight. Until it’s quite too late.”
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