…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!