Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

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

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.