Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.