When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.