I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

True friends are always together in spirit.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.