It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.