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“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.”

“I even love the smell of books.”

“I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”

“But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.”

“We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.”

“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

“A good mother is irreplaceable.”

“I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?”

“Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.”

“This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap…”

“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”

“.. its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them”

“Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.”

“Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.”

“I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores”

“Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.”

“People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.”

“A practical girl never pines; she takes action.”

“This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.”

“This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling”

“For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.”