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“oh, sometimes, I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”

Davy is a hoot

Sighhhh, why can’t we take our best friends with us wherever we go?!

Diana offering to put flowers on Matthew’s grave 😭

“I’ve put out a lot of little roots these two years,“ Anne told the moon, “and when I’m pulled up, they’re going to hurt a great deal.“

Everyone always goes on about how perfect Gilbert Blythe is, but hardly anyone mentions what a good friend Diana is to Anne. If only everyone had a Diana!

Awww 🥰

“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

A Purple Pills reference! Tiny little nod to Blue Castle?

“Anyhow, there’ll be plenty of jam in heaven, that’s one comfort.”
Anne nipped a smile in the bud.
“Perhaps there will be . . . If we want it. But what makes you think so?”
“Why, it’s in the catechism,” said Davy. “‘Why should we love God?’ It says, ‘because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.”