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

“Maybe there was no happily ever after […] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.”

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness…”

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

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

“She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.”

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

“Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed… normal.”

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without the need of protection.”