“Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.”

“Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish.”

“Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.”

“I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.”

“I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)”

“Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.”

“You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.”