Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

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.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

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

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.