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

“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.”

“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.”

“I doubted God last Sunday " said Rilla "but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.”

“Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write.”