“Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.”
“...a quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner...”
“Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables”
“Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father’s intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically meshed in her mind, giving her a faultless instinct for finding her way around.”
“Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!”
“Around and around there came a sound of sails popping in the wind. The Queen Anne she swayed, on her right side she laid and swung around us again.”