There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.