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She gave him entire confidence, he gave her the help she needed, and both found consolation in the act.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

Beth smiled and felt comforted, for the tiny thing seemed to offer its small friendship and remind her that a pleasant world was still to be enjoyed.

We won’t be miserable, but enjoy being together while we wait. We’ll have happy times, for I don’t suffer much, and I think the tide will go out easily, if you help me.

There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m 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.

Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life

I’m not a bit changed--not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me--back here--is just the same.

I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us.

We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.

I’m not ungrateful--and perhaps--when this horrible ache grows a little less--I’ll find that I can go on living.

The thought that it may stop hurting sometimes hurts me worse than all else, Marilla.

Carlo got very fond of me--and his dog-love helped me through that first dreadful year after mother died, when I was alone.

Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

There is no silence more docile than the silence of love, and it is indeed the only one that we may claim for ourselves alone.

We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another

Whereas in friendship, 'tis a general and universal fire, but temperate and equal, a constant established heat, all gentle and smooth, without poignancy or roughness.

intimacy is the full enjoyment of friendship, and most pleasant is companying with and spending the day with a friend

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

Love should run out to meet love with open arms.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.

It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.

There are probably as many different dialects for the heart as for the tongue, are there not?