A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

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.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.