There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

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

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.