Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

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.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

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

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.