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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.
That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.
There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.
…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.
Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.
I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.
...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.
She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.