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

- Anna Katharine Green

The very shadows seem to listen.

- Anna Katharine Green

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

- 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

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

- 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

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

- Anna Katharine Green

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

- Anna Katharine Green

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

- Anna Katharine Green