If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

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?

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.

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?