... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.