A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery — we may only wander, awed and spellbound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice.

Anne reveled in the world of color about her. "Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.