Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Why, because it sounds so nice and romantic, just as if I were a heroine in a book, you know. I am so fond of romantic things, and a graveyard full of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine isn't it? I'm rather glad I have one. Are we going across the Lake of Shining Waters today?"

. "I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,

“I can never forget the night I thought you were dying, Gilbert. Oh, I knew—I knew then—and I thought it was too late.”

“But it wasn’t, sweetheart.

“There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher’s duty to find and develop it.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.

“What do you think about it, Gilbert?” demanded Jane. “Don’t you think there are some children who really need a whipping now and then?”

“Don’t you think it’s a cruel, barbarous thing to whip a child . . . ANY child?” exclaimed Anne, her face flushing with earnestness.

“Well,” said Gilbert slowly, torn between his real convictions and his wish to measure up to Anne’s ideal

I don’t believe in whipping children much.

Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.

Anne gave Gilbert a disappointed glance.

“I suppose you won’t punish the girls by making them sit with the boys?” said Jane slyly.