Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.