There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

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

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.