I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.