The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?