“She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.”

“But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely.Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.”

“Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.”

“She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.”

“It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and herself hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside-- but sometimes, just for a moment, a wind fluttered it and then it was as if she caught a glimpse of the enchanting realm beyond-- only a glimpse-- and heard a note of unearthly music.”

“Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.”

“An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.”