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.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

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

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.