Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn’t seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
I’m sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn’t prevent my thinking there is.
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.
It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.
A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
It’s so hard to get up again – although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
I feel as though someone’s handed me the moon and I don’t exactly know what to do with it.
It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
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.
It’s fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it’s not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There’s so much to learn and do and think that there isn’t time for big words.
What a spineless thing I must be not to have one enemy!
Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister – a happiness we’ve earned.