There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.