Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.

One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.