People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

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.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.