Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.