There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.