And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.