“Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.”

“Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn’t that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me. I knew I’d miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.”

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

“She had not understood what he said, but she took him in with a glance that made Will feel like he had just had one of those full-body MRI scans, the kind that find more things wrong with you than you ever could have imagined.”

“Could anyone among us have an inkling or a clueWhat magic feats or wizardry and voodoo you can do?And who would ever guess what powers you possessAnd who would not be stunned to see you proveThere's more to us than surgeons can removeSo much more than we ever knewSo much more were we born to doShould you draw back the curtain, this I am certainYou'll be impressed with you”

“She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”