But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

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.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely