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

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.