Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.