Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.