It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.