God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.