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.

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery — we may only wander, awed and spellbound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice.