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

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.