“Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.”

“Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair."What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.Stovepipe Town made a mistake."Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.”

“‎"Wouldn't it be lovely, Miss Shirley, if some one could just wave a wand and make everybody beautiful?" she said wistfully. "Just fancy my feelings, Miss Shirley, if I suddenly fould myself beautiful! But then"....with a sigh..."if we were all beauties who would do the work?" Anne of Windy Poplars”

“She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.”

“I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.”

“You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that.”

“Let's sum up... a little house, white and green or to be made so... with trees, preferably birch and spruce... a window looking seaward... on a hill. That sounds very possible... but there is one other requirement. There must be magic about it, Jane... lashings of magic... and magic houses are scarce, even on the Island. Have you any idea at all what I mean, Jane?"Jane reflected."You want to feel that the house is yours before you buy it," she said."Jane," said dad, "you are too good to be true.”