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

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.