I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.