“Are you listening or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?”

“Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad, just when you especially want them to be good!”

“I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.”

“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!”

“Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”

“At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.”

“Well, that was life. Gladness and pain... hope and fear... and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart... learn to love it and then let it go in turn.”