It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth