“bluebells hang their heads. they’re famous for it. i may have hung my head at the dorchester ball when i was 19, but i’m a duchess now, and my head is always absolutely upright”
“girls, have you not noticed? we're not them. we're americans. when did we ever care what people think of us? the english, they're so fascinated by their history. well, we have a history of being fascinating. It's time that they learn from us”
“i wear my father's belt tied around my mother's blouse, and shoes which are from my uncle. this is me. just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free”
“my ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. these senses are the fruits of a lifetime of longing, longing to be rescued, to be completed. just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I'm not formed by things that are of myself alone”
“listen, i don’t know what happened between you two, because no one in this bloody band of broken dolls can confab worth a damn. but i know kaz. and i know you”