Give us a chew, said Mary companionably. Nan, Di and Faith all produced an amber-hued knot or two from their pockets and passed them to Mary. Una sat very still. She had four lovely big knots in the p...
Freedom and independence were all very well, but one should not be a little fool.
For, disguise the fact as we will, when friends, even the closest—perhaps the more because of that very closeness—meet again after a separation there is always a chill, lesser or greater, of change. N...
For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would NOT b...
Folks say I'm good, he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was ab...
Even when I'm alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.
Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot. Joy—happiness—sorrow—fear—every passion that had wrung her heart in those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a moment as the deeps of being were...
Do you never imagine things different from what they really are? asked Anne wide-eyed.No.Oh! Anne drew a long breath. Oh, Miss--Marilla, how much you miss!
Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, she said with a sigh.
Changes ain’t totally pleasant but they’re excellent things. Two years is about long enough for things to stay the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy. - Mr Harrison
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
But play the game of life according to the rules. You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end.
But heaven won't be like church—all the time, said Anne. I hope it ain't, said Davy emphatically. If it is I don't want to go. Church is awful dull. Anyway, I don't mean to go for ever so long. I mean...
But I don't want to be a different girl, said Emily decidedly. She had no intention of lowering the Starr flag to Aunt Ruth. I wouldn't want to be anybody but myself even if I am plain. Besides, she a...
Because I simply couldn't make up my mind to do it. I never can make up my mind about anything myself—I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decide to do something I feel in my bones...
Anne, said Leslie, breaking abruptly a short silence, you don’t know how GOOD it is to be sitting here with you again — working — and talking — and being silent together.
Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloo...
And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places — if you do anything the people you went to school with can’t do some of them will never forgive you.
And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.