“Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?”
“Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.”
“For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister”
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”