Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".