…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

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.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.