“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?”

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

“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.”

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

“It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for 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!”

“That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.”