“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?”

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

“Oh, it was almost too much to bear! And everything was going on as before - the dancers were spinning around, the boys who couldn't get partners were hanging about the pavilion, canoodling couples were sitting out on the rocks - nobody seemed to realize what a stupendous thing had happened.”

“Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.”

“Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…”

“There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.”

“Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)”