Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.