I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)

There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.