The Duke Who Didn't (Wedgeford Trials, #1)

by Courtney Milan

and I’ll throw in an entire box of the thickest, creamiest, most perfect list-making paper that you have ever seen.”

Don't joke about the paper, sir

“The place you are,” Mr. Fong said, “is not permanent. Stop waiting. Work with what you have and who you are to make what you want to be. I am waiting to see what you will discover.”

She picked up the best-looking triangle of nyong tofu with her chopsticks, one where the creamy tofu was stuffed to overflowing with minced pork and fish and green onions,

Mmmmmmmm

“There’s nothing terrible about being loved,” she told him. “People liked you. That’s all that happened. You are allowed to have that.”