You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

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.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.