A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

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

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.