• ''It’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it. And you bring so much.''
• ''People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?''
• ''Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.''
• “...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...”
• "She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them"

- Anne