It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".