Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables 

by L.M. Montgomery

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” 

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” 

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.” 

“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.” 

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?” 

“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.” 

“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.” 

“Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice".

Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".”

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... Yet.” 

“It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.”