It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

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

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.