You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

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.

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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