You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

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.

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

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.