Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

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.