It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

I've come home in love with loneliness

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

I am simply a book drunkard.

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".