“She consoled herself with the thought that she looked terrifying.”

“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”

“But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, that she might make it less. What restrained her was, no doubt, idleness and fear, and a sense of shame also. She thought she had repulsed him too much, that the time was past, that all was lost. Then pride, the joy of being able to say to herself 'I am virtuous', and to look at herself in the glass taking resigned poses, consoled her a little for the sacrifice she believed she was making.”

“Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.”

“Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.”

“She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.”