“I’ve got something so lovely to think about that I’d like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.” — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves,… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share
I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible. — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting. — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling. — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
“I’ve got something so lovely to think about that I’d like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
