Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)