Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

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.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.