It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

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

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.