let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.