It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.