Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.

The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.