[...] Cousin Jimmy gave me a whole dollar on the sly last week. I wish he had not given me so much. It worrys me. It is an awful responsibility. It will be so diffikult to spend it wisely also without...
Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.
The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me.
I have it lots of time--whenever I see anything royally beautiful. But they shouldn't call that lovely place the Avenue. There is no meaning in a name like that. They should call it--let me see--the W...
Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.
You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay...
I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.
Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.
But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.
An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elflan...
Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.
You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.
But pearls are for tears, the old legend says, Gilbert had objected.I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when M...
…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little...
That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.