“If she can't spell, she shouldn't be a librarian.”

“All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.”

“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”

“She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.”

“Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name”

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”

“The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.”