Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. 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.
…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is t...
He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.
Oh, WHY can't boys be just sensible! Anne
She turned to Roy with her gayest expression. He smiled back at her with what Phil called his deep, black, velvety smile. Yet, she really did not see Roy at all. She was acutely conscious that Gilbert...
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. The most terrible and tremendous saying in the world, Jane… because we are all afraid of truth and afraid of freedom… that’s why we murdered...
I always say good night to the things I love, just as I would to people.
The old enchantment had gone. She saw him as she had never seen him before - as her clan had always seen him. A handsome fellow, who thought every girl who looked at him fell in love with him; shallow...
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.
I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
I don't seem to be like other girls, Judy. They all want to go to college and have a career. I don't...I just want to stay at Silver Bush and help you and mother. There's work for me here, Judy...you...
There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world - Anne Shirley
Oh, well, I won't call you 'Johnny' any more. After this I'll call you 'Sammy,' which was, of course, adding fuel to the fire.
The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And t...
There was nobody else —there never could be anybody else for me but you. I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves—so
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