[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 were never poor as long as you had something to love. The
You have the whole world at your doorstep here, said John Meredith, with a long breath. What a view—what an outlook! At times I feel stifled down there in the Glen. You can breathe up here. It
You don't chatter half as much as you used to, Anne, nor use half as many big words. What has come over you? Anne coloured and laughed a little, as she dropped her book and looked dreamily out of the...
You couldn’t really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you?
Ye’ve only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.
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 she...walked down the long hill that sloped to the Lake of Shining Waters it was past sunset and all Avonlea lay before her in a dreamlike afterlight- 'a haunt of ancient peace'. There was a fres...
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...
What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.
What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!
Well, we’re not getting a girl, said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded in the case of a boy.
Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it.
Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.
Well, I don't want to be any one but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life.
We'll never say good-bye to each other. We'll just smile and go.