" You can't hand boys around as though they were pieces of cake," she said. "Don't worry about getting a boy for me, Betsy. Boys just don't seem important to me. They don't seem any more important to me than they ever did."
"Tacy!" said Betsy. "You're beyond me!"
"Well!" said Tacy. "That's the way I am. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy, #5)