I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

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