Anne of Avonlea

You must be my bridesmaid, you know, Anne. Promise me that . . . wherever you may be when I'm married."

"I'll come from the ends of the earth if necessary,"

"It's perfectly lovely to be engaged to Fred . . . but I think it would be simply horrid to be engaged to anyone else."

"There's not much comfort for the rest of us in that, seeing that there is only one Fred,"

"Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not

And what can she see in Fred? He's very nice and jolly . . . but he's just Fred Wright."

"Things are changing so fast it almost frightens me,"

"things seen are mightier than things heard,"

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry . . . and I think it's nicer ..." Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed ..." to look at it through poetry."

"What if he don't propose after all, Miss Shirley, ma'am? You can never be sure of them men. My oldest sister, Charlotta the First, thought she was engaged to one once. But it turned but he had a different opinion and she says she'll never trust one of them again. And I heard of another case where a man thought he wanted one girl awful bad when it was really her sister he
wanted all the time.

"You know time always does stand still in an enchanted palace," said Anne seriously. "It is only
when the prince comes that things begin to happen."

She might get some one who wouldn't be as unlucky as me in breaking dishes but she'd never get any one who'd love her better."