I put her down, and I picked her up again and I fell in love again. I realized I missed her.
"'Oh,' and Anna went on, 'How wonderful it is to be your age! I remember well that blue mist, like the haze on the mountains in Switzerland. I know it so well. The mist which envelops everything, that blissful time when childhood is just coming to an end and its enormous happy, merry circle becomes a path that grows narrower, and narrower, and you feel gay and at the same time fearful as you enter this long avenue of life, though it seems bright and beautiful. Who has not passed through it?'" pg. 88
"Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her, and then for a long time afterward, for years afterward, that look so full of love that she gave him and which met with no response from him cut her to the heart with tormenting shame." pg. 96
"She saw that Anna was intoxicated with the wine of admiration she had aroused." pg. 97
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