Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might...
Marilla! Anne sat down on Marilla’s gingham lap, took Marilla’s lined face between her hands, and looked gravely and tenderly into Marilla’s eyes. I’m not a bit changed—not really. I’m only just prune...
That water looks as if it was smiling at me
I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her.
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it
But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been rosy red in it…births have been here…all the passions…all the hopes....
Isn’t it splendid there are so many things to like in this world?
People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about...
Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it...
Oh, no, you did not, Mrs. Dr. dear, said loyal Susan, determined to protect Anne from herself.
I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.
Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.
Truly, the happiness certain things give us is never to be measured by their worldly importance.
The trouble with him seems to be that he hasn't enough imagination.
How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.
Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.
God is in His heaven. All is right in the world.
I've put out a lot of little roots these two years, Anne told the moon, and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good r...
That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely...
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