A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, ' she said with a sigh.

…but youth yearned to youth.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Being a solution and not a problem proves progression.

There is no limit to what you can achieve, if you believe you can.

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.

... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.