Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

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

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.