“Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.”

“She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.”

“When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”

“She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.”

“Life Plan:
I asked her what she planned to do with her life & she said she was way beyond that point already. I'm just happy I remember to be there when it happens, she said.”

“Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.”

“she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad”

“She could only realize that she herself — her present self — was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.”