Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

“[A]s if enjoying a last, drawn-out supper, he sips on Alexandria's shadows.”

“...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.”

“You are in training, and therefore your personal taste and opinions are not to be trusted until they are fully and reliably shaped - by me.”

“I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.”

“...he went off to Paris. Actually, I don't know for sure that Paris is where he ended up.”

“[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.”

“But what if Alex changes it all around?...Where does that leave you?...But really...what if she's right?”

“Every nerve in my body says to run after Thaddeus and tell him everything. But I know there's no way he can know the truth.”

“...[O]ne of the first things a Magnolia League debutante learns: Keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.”

“There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.”

“...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.”

“[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.”