Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?