The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.