A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.