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

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.

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.

I am not an advocate for religion. I only advocate for sweet general harmony.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.

Donald Trump understands the frustrations and the hopes of the American people.

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

All existence is a manifestation of God.