…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley