It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

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

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.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.