I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl’s life.
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
Don’t you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.
I couldn’t live where there were no trees – something vital in me would starve.
I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
It’s not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn’t; It’s only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
I’m not a bit changed – not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me – back here – is just the same.
If it’s IN you to climb you must – there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills – they can’t breathe properly in the valleys.
It’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
Plum puffs can’t minister to a mind diseased or a world that’s crumbling to pieces.
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise – which showed how young she was.
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Which would you rather be if you had the choice – divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
I’ve just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
It’s good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
To dispair is to turn your back on God.
The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.