What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

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

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

brains last, beauty doesn't.