Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.