“But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”

“Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.”

“It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.”

“P.S.2. I have put in a new pen. And I love you because you aren't pompous like Dr. Carter . . . and I love you because you haven't got sticky-out ears like Johnny. And . . . the very best reason of all . . . I love you for just being Gilbert!”

“You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.”

“I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them all the time.”