A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?