After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.