| Quote | Author | Source |
| "Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thank goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin."
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| "You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you."
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| "It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone," said Anne, shuddering.
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| "I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful."
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| She discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| "I like people to have a little nonsense about them."
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| "I'm afraid to speak or move for fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence."
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
| She had lived solely for the little things of life—the things that pass—forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity, bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing from one dwelling to the other—from twilight to unclouded day.
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of the Island |
