Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

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

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

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.

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.