I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.