She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

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.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.