Wouldn’t it be nice if roses could talk? I’m sure they could tell us such lovely things.
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn’t be afraid of it.
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
I believe I’ve put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
Oh, of course there’s a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it’s all said and done, there’s many a worse thing than a husband.
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.
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.
But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden – only ugliness and deformity.
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn’t do to drag them into everything, does it?
Satirize wickedness if you must – but pity weakness.
There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
I don’t really care what people think about me if they don’t let me see it.