“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.”

“Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.”

“I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.”

“The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.''Do I look like a liar?''You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.”

“She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.”

“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.”