one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

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.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.