What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

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.