What a relationship looks like on the outside isn’t the same as what it’s like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see...

You may need to change your dreams.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn’t want us to be any more successful than she was

Avevo perso gran parte del mio interesse per i cosmetici. Non che avessi smesso di preoccuparmi del mio aspetto, anzi, ma non riuscivo a comprendere sino in fondo come si potesse risultare simpatica o bella....

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn’t give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that...

It may not seem like much – a few kisses in the dark – but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.