We belong to the race that knows Joseph

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

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.

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.