Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.
Bless you, it hasn't, rumbled Ellen. The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists. The millenniun isn't THAT near, Mr. Meredith, and YOU don't think it i...
Bets seemed to die afresh every time there was something Pat wanted to share with her and could not.
Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will...
Avonlea
Aunt Elizabeth came in. Emily, the rock-crystal goblet! Your Grandmother Murray’s goblet! And you have broken it! No, really. Aunty dear, I didn’t. Mr. Greaves — Mr. Mark Delage Greaves did it. He thr...
At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that s...
Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.
Anne: But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice.Marilla: I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones.
Anne was sitting on the steps, her hands clasped over her knee, looking, in the kind dusk, as girlish as a mother of many has any right to be; and the beautiful gray-green eyes, gazing down the harbou...
Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood.
Anne rose from her knees and crept downstairs. The freshness of the rain-wind blew against her white face as she went out into the yard, and cooled her dry, burning eyes. A merry rollicking whistle wa...
Anne had never seen Mrs. Merrill before and never saw her again, but she always remembered her as a woman who had attained to the ultimate secret of life. You were never poor as long as you had someth...
And they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee, for I am with thee, saith the Lord of Hosts, to deliver thee.
And the coming of Anne—the vivid, imaginative, impetuous child with her heart of love, and her world of fancy, bringing with her color and warmth and radiance, until the wilderness of existence had bl...
And so, said Miss Cornelia, the double wedding is to be sometime about the middle of this month. There was a faint chill in the air of the early September evening, so Anne had lighted her ever ready f...
And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
And as for the risk, there's risks in pretty near everything a body does in this world.
And as for risk, there’s risk in pretty near everything a body does in this world. - Marilla Cuthbert