Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.