My pen shall heal, not hurt.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.