Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

- Annie Fellows Johnston

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to brid…

- Annie Fellows Johnston

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and s…

- Annie Fellows Johnston

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

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we w…

- Annie Fellows Johnston

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

- Annie Fellows Johnston

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…

- Annie Fellows Johnston

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

- Annie Fellows Johnston