Quote by Stephanie Barron (b. 1963)

• Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

• I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.

• Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

• I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.