brains last, beauty doesn't.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.

Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.