In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

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

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.