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Their thoughtfulness has been more of a help and encouragement to me than they can ever know.

Debarred from the great highways of knowledge, I was compelled to make the journey across country by unfrequented roads--that was all; and I knew that in college there were many bypaths where I could touch hands with girls who were thinking, loving and struggling like me.

Darkness cannot shut me in again. I have had a glimpse of the shore, and can now live by the hope of reaching it.

Now I rejoice in the consciousness that I can think, act and attain heaven.

I love the good that others do; for their activity is an assurance that whether I can help or not, the true and the good will stand sure.

Now I know hope and joy.

But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.

In the midst of my perplexity I read an essay of Stevenson which made me feel as if I had been "outing" in the sunshine, instead of losing heart over a difficult task. I tried again with new courage and succeeded almost before I knew it.

My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to coöperate with the good, that it may prevail.

I believe we should so act that we may draw nearer and more near the age when no man shall live at his ease while another suffers.

I remember an hour when I was discouraged and ready to falter. For days I had been pegging away at a task which refused to get itself accomplished.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

It’s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it’s not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

And I’ll read to you and keep you cheered up. You sha’n’t be dull or lonesome. And we’ll be real cozy and happy here together, you and I.

We’ve got each other, Anne. I don’t know what I’d do if you weren’t here--if you’d never come.

The tears don’t hurt me like that ache did. Stay here for a little while with me and keep your arm round me--so.

You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

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.

It’s never been easy for me to say things out of my heart, but at times like this it’s easier. I love you as dear as if you were my own flesh and blood and you’ve been my joy and comfort ever since you came to Green Gables.

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

I’m quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads. I know Matthew gave me as much love with them as ever went with Madame the Pink Lady’s jewels.

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

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

Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.