I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

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.

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.