Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull no one would read them.
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life.
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, Mr. Carpenter had said once. Silence betrays.
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and neve...
If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!
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.
Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, br...
Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easil...
If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth,They paint the angels fair.
I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spi...
Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship...
Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em, said Captain Jim. When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got so...
I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.