Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Adam lived 930 years. He never got to know his mother in law.

Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

There are only five things you can do in baseball: run throw catch hit and hit with power.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.