"I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people know more...though I know that is the noblest ambition...but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me..to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born." ~Anne of Avonlea

"Oh, of course there's a resk in marrying anybody," conceded Charlotta the Fourth, "but, when all's said and done, Miss Shirley, ma'am, there's many a worse thing than a husband." ~Anne of Avonlea

"Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he (Matthew) whispered shyly, "a little of it is a good thing-not too much, of course-but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it." ~Anne of Green Gables

"Below her was the mystery and loveliness of a garden at night. The far-away hills, dusted with moonlight, were a poem. ~Anne of Ingleside