“Two of them have asked in the most circumspect and quiet ways possible if there was a chance that you prefer women.”I let out a sound that wasn’t quite a laugh. “Of course, because the only way I could possibly like men is if I bowed down at their feet?”

“What’s it like to be in love?”"It’s the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you,”

“We know you're strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.”

“There's a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty”

“Wanting to cry doesn't mean you can.”

“I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country. We are so much more now.”

“Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.”

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.”

“It was a delicious feeling, falling in love. I'd had so many luxuries in my life, and I thought I'd had a taste of this before, but I realized now it was merely a cheap imitation of something not meant to be imitated in the first place.”

“You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers.”

“You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.”