Chasing Cassandra (The Ravenels, #6)

by Lisa Kleypas

There’s something wrong with me. I’m going to end up an old maid.” “There’s no such thing as an old maid.” “Wh-what would you call a middle-aged lady who’s never married?” “A woman with standards?”

“But life is what novels are about. A novel can contain more truth than a thousand newspaper articles or scientific papers. It can make you imagine, just for a little while, that you’re someone else—and then you understand more about people who are different from you.”