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.

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 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.

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I'm not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.

What we're trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.