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.
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.