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.

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.