Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

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

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

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?