“Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.”

“She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.”

“Wilson has some fancy name for it, butI call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eatingline I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I callshallamagouslem. ”

“Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats?”

“Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.”

“I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.”

“When will the others come?"And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!”