They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high, ' he said.

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn.

A man on a mission would bring his heaviest artillery, and it looked like this guy hadn’t even packed a pocket knife.

Emotionally intelligent people have an ability to manage stress as it happens and remain calm through chaos.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

I think I was very young when I became interested in fashion.

Art is much, but love is more.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

I think women have a lack of confidence. They often apologize; I was guilty of that too. When people have said, "Oh, look at your success," I would downplay it.