I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne, said Marilla unsympathetically.
Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.
He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be...
Snow in April is abominable, said Anne. Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.
Piper
Never mind Phil and the violets just now, Anne, said Gilbert quietly, taking her hand in a clasp from which she could not free it. There is something I want to say to you. Oh, don't say it, cried Anne...
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them. -Anne Shirl...
It's lovely when the dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy... and it glowers in at you resentfully.
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones.
I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you... We’ll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
As for Mr. Meredith, said Miss Cornelia, even his engagement has made a different man of him. He isn't half so dreamy and absent-minded, believe me. I was so relieved when I heard that he had decided...
Anne tried to picture Mrs. Skinner on speaking terms with romance and failed.
She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.
She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.