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

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

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

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.