“I've come home in love with loneliness”

“I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.”

“I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

“I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and you!”

“I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

“Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

“I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…”