Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

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.