You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.