It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.

most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.