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

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.

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.

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.

…but youth yearned to youth.

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

The Women Who Can Wait For Her ManTill Dawn, Without Any Argument, Are Priceless.

Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?" I kid... "It is life magic".

I don't know what I know, but definitely know what I know'what I know, i don't know...what I don't know, I know

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.