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

Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

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

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

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.