Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.