Mr. Harrison is an awful kind man. He's a real sociable man. I hope I'll be like him when I grow up. I mean BEHAVE like him…I don't want to LOOK like him.
Miss Cordelia thought she had never seen anybody so much like an incarnate smile before. Smiles of all kinds seemed literally to riot over his ruddy face and in and out of his eyes and around the corn...
Man-like, said Miss Cornelia,
Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. - Anne Shirley
Life is rich and full here … everywhere … if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fulness.
Life is rich and full here... everywhere... if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness.
Let the Piper come and welcome, he cried, waving his hand. I'LL follow him gladly round and round the world.
Kingsport or feel at home there. Before
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting,
John Foster says, quoted Valancy, 'If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be...
I’ve had a splendid time, she concluded happily, and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
I’m not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn’t it a splendid thing that there are mornings?
It's about Diana,' sobbed Anne luxuriously. 'I love Diana so, Marilla. I cannot ever live without her. But I know very well when we grow up that Diana will get married and go away and leave me. And oh...
It's a fearful responsibility to have a child in your house you can't trust.
It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was handsome auburn, don’t you think?
It was nearly as long as a minister’s and so poetical. But
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
It is easier to behave nicely when your good clothes on. - Rilla Blythe
It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter.
Ilse lost her temper at once and went into a true Burnley tantrum. She was very fluent in her rages and the volley of abusive dictionary words which she hurled at Emily would have staggered most of th...