Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.