But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

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.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.