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.

Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.