The very shadows seem to listen.

- Anna Katharine Green

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

- Anna Katharine Green

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that …

- Anna Katharine Green

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

- Anna Katharine Green

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

- Anna Katharine Green

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

- Anna Katharine Green

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

- Anna Katharine Green

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

- Anna Katharine Green

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

- Anna Katharine Green