The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring...I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in...
Talk to me, Roger. Don't ask me to talk - I can't - but just talk to me.Roger, to his own surprise, found that he could. He had never talked much to Gay before. He had always felt that he could talk o...
Sure and ye’ve only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.
Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley
Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be.
Slowly the banners of the sunset city gave up their crimson and gold; slowly the conqueror's pageant faded out. Twilight crept over the valley and the little group grew silent.
She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.
She turned to Roy with her gayest expression. He smiled back at her with what Phil called his deep, black, velvety smile. Yet, she really did not see Roy at all. She was acutely conscious that Gilbert...
She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?
She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.
Sally says they’ll fight most of their time but that they’ll be happier fighting with each other than agreeing with anybody else. But I don’t think they’ll fight... much. I think it is just misunderst...
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps. . . perhaps....
On Monday I received a letter from Golden Days, a Philadelphia juvenile, accepting a short story I had sent there and enclosing a cheque for five dollars. It was the first money my pen had ever earned...
Oh, well, I won't call you 'Johnny' any more. After this I'll call you 'Sammy,' which was, of course, adding fuel to the fire.
Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think i...
Oh, Aunt Elizabeth, said Emily breathlessly, when you hold the candle down like that it makes your face look just like a corpse! Oh, it's so interesting.
Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it
Now, don't fly off the handle. Martha said the butcher at the Glen had no meat this week and she had to have something and the hens were all laying and too poor. If
None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan witha sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowellsays, ‘Not failure but low aim is crime.’ Wemust have ideals and try to live up to them,even if we never quite succe...