How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

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

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.