A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

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.