Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

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

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.