Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)