Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.