There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.

... we always love best the people who need us.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.