Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?