People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.