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.

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

You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.