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

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.