Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.