L.M. Montgomery

Fear is the original sin,_ suddenly said a still, small voice away back__ack__ack of Valancy__ consciousness. __lmost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.__alancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected."I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes__hen Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables__hen Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had__hen I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

I hardly dare believe it after that horrible day last summer. I have had a heart ache ever since then. But it is gone now.___his baby will take Joy__ place._ Said Marilla.__h, no no no Marilla. He can__, nothing can ever do that. He has his own place, my dear wee man child. But little Joy has hers, and always will have it.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.

I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon