Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.