I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.
I feel sorry now myself, admitted Davy, but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I’ve did them.
I don't know whether it is any use forgiving people or not. Yes, it is, it makes you feel more comfortable yourself.
I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o'clock at night once in a while; but...
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.
Everything that's worth having is some trouble…
Chapter 25 — Shirley Goes
But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.
Anne of Windy Poplars
A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.
Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!
Тело растет медленно и постоянно, но душа растет стремительно и скачками.
Was my pore boy.
Was a new family in the manse. And such a family! Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she walked briskly along.
Up over a wooded hill beyond, where perpetual twilight reigned under the straight, thick-growing firs and spruces; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate June bells, those shyest and sweetest...
Them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.
Silent. Walter had been reading again that day in his beloved book of myths and he remembered how he had once fancied the Pied Piper coming down the valley on an evening
Part due to accidental circumstances—the
Make a still bigger fool of himself, if he tried. I