We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

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