Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

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

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.