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.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

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.

…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.