You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

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.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.