"Soap?""School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed."

"I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons."

"French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused."

"Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get."

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

"Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed."

"It's become impossible to deny he means something to me."

"Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day"

"I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do."

"I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!"

"I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul."

"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."

"Har. Bloody. Har."

"What...what about when I'm married?”“We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits."

"St. Clair clears his throat. 'My fiancée and I are headed out for a celebratory dessert. I'd ask you all to join us, but I don't want you there."

"I'm sorry," he says."What? Why?""You're fixing everything I set down." He nods at my hands, which are readjusting the elephant. "It wasn't polite of me to come in and start touching your things.""Oh, it's okay," I say quickly, letting go of the figurine. "You can touch anything of mine you want." would be so bad."

"The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e."

"Soap?""School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed."

"I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons."

"French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused."

"Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get."

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."