Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.