I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

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.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.