It's so much easier, to learn to love what you have instead of yearning always for what you're missing, or what you imagine you're missing. It's so m… - Anna Quindlen

I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible — well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones — and will reread something she's already read, even if it's something like a detective novel, when you'd suspect that knowing who had really killed the countess would materially detract from the experience. (It doesn't, and besides, I often can't remember who the murderer was in the first place.)

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.