Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.