Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.