Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.