a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.