Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

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