It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.