The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.