That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.