That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously.

"Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.