Quote by Ann Brashares

“All during Lena's life, Ella had worried about how the world could harm her. But the world could love her as well.”

— Karen Bender

“Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give?”

— Josephine Tey

“I wanted to know if she fucked the way she seemed to live—full of passion and fierce energy.”

— Nina Levine

“fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce…

— Gail Carriger

“And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy. Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense…

— Virginia Woolf

“I loved everything about her, and I didn't care how dark she got. If anything it was what I loved the most, the veil…

— Brendan Cowell

“Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less…

— Ann Brashares

“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might…

— Graham Greene

“Lena remembered herself in all the old familiar things they said. She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself…

— Ann Brashares

“She had been adept at the beginning and the end of things, and now she saw that whatever pleasures life had to offer lay…

— Robert Goolrick

“The thrill of telling her true feelings without considering good manners or the propriety of what she had to say was intoxicating.”

— Sara Donati

“She was good at that, repressing her feelings, disguising them as something else. Sometimes she thought it was the only thing she was good…

— Nicole Ciacchella