Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”

“Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”