Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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.

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

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.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.