She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.