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.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?