I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.