Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.