Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Su...
Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne. You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. M...
Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.
You don't think much about romance when you have just escaped from a watery grave.
We... Charlotta the Fourth and I... live in defiance of every known law of diet. ~ Miss Lavendar, chap 27
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
Soul-ache doesn't worry folks near as much as stomach-ache.
[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always...
Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her...
Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse.
He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure,...
I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed,
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely.Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
Oh, I think some parts of it are fine, conceded Davy. That story about Joseph now—it's bully. But if I'd been Joseph Iwouldn't have forgive the brothers. No, siree, Anne. I'd have cut all their heads...
The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them.
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.
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