We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

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

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!