Red hair is my life long sorrow.

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.