“She has regular features but yet one could not say that she was pretty. She is too big and too stout. Her features are not regular and yet one could say that she is very pretty. She is too small and too thin. She's a voice teacher”
“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.”
“Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time—even in school. She says it makes her learn her lessons better. She wants Ermengarde to be one, too, but Ermengarde says she is too fat.”
“Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could.”
“There was too much to feel strongly about, she was stretched too thin, so she could not quite feel anything about anything.”
“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”