If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

Why do women always feel they have to settle for less?

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

Valys also didn't think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced to settle. But what he didn't understand was that if he thought I might not be good enough for him, he definitely wasn't good enough for me. I was well aware of my flaws, but I knew my merits, too; I shouldn't have to be anyone's second-best. Least of all, his.

Lisa blamed Twilight, and the preconceived notions about men (especially dangerous men) that it tended to form in the impressionable adolescent mind.