The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble…

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.