Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

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)

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.