“You see,in the sunset land the time is ever so much longer than it is here.”

“Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.”

“I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

“There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.”

“I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.”

“It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.”

“Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”