It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

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.

Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.