And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided there time.
And grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her Mrs. Marshall Elliott, with
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
[She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did.
You’ll just pamper Anne’s vanity, Matthew, and she’s as vain as a peacock now.
You couldn’t really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you?
Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats?
When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded aside.
When Marilla took Anne up to bed that night she said stiffly: Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about the floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I...
When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so.
What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.
Well, anyway, when I am grown up, said Anne decidedly, I’m always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I’ll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how...
We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except w...
We both belong to the race that knows Joseph, as Cornelia Bryant would say. The race that knows Joseph? puzzled Anne. Yes. Cornelia divides all the folks in the world into two kinds — the race that kn...
We belong to the race that knows Joseph
Tomorrow is always a fresh day with no mistakes in it
Tommy and Adam Cowan, over at Markdale, are twins; and they're both cross-eyed. So I s'posed that was what being twins meant.
To think that this is my twentieth birthday, and that I've left my teens behind me forever, said Anne, who was curled up on the hearth-rug with Rusty in her lap, to Aunt Jamesina who was reading in he...
These modern novels that leave everything unfinished annoy me...But things are often unfinished in real life, said Pat...All the more reason why they should come right in books, said Uncle Horace test...