Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.