But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

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.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.