I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

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

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.