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.

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.