…but youth yearned to youth.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, ' she said with a sigh.

A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.

Bread for today is bread enough.

You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.