I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

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.

Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.