Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

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

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

All things great are wound up with all things little.