Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.

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.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!