People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

Nothing worth while is every easy come by.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.