Status Updates From Emily Climbs

“Emily brooded and grew morbid over it. A thing like that—a dim, poisonous thing that lurked in shadow and dared not come into the open—always played havoc with her sensitive and passionate temperament. No open quarrel with Ilse could have affected her like this … This was different. The more Emily brooded over it the more monstrous it grew. She was unhappy, absent, restless.”

“I read a story tonight. It ended unhappily. I was wretched until I had invented a happy ending for it. I shall always end my stories happily. I don’t care whether it’s ‘true to life’ or not. It’s true to life as it should be and that’s a better truth than the other” (253).

Emilia-jee! Ensimmäinen kirja oli hyvä, tämä vaikuttaa erinomaiselta myös.