Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

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

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

... we always love best the people who need us.