The Complete Anne of Green Gables Collection

by L.M. Montgomery

but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive — it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?

Q1

And 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?”

Dreams don’t often come true, do they? Wouldn’t it be nice if they did?

Q 3

“it made a queer funny ache and yet it was a pleasant ache.

Q4

Isn’t it splendid there are so many things to like in this world?

Q5

Every little while a horrible sickening feeling would come over me and I’d be so afraid it was all a dream. Then I’d pinch myself to see if it was real — until suddenly I remembered that even supposing it was only a dream I’d better go on dreaming as long as I could; so I stopped pinching.

Q6

“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,” she whispered, as he lifted her

to the ground. “What nice dreams they must have!”

I’m in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”

Q6

It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

7

“The world doesn’t seem such a howling wilderness as it did last night. I’m so glad it’s a sunshiny morning. But I like rainy mornings real well, too. All sorts of mornings are interesting, don’t you think? You don’t know what’s going to happen through the day, and there’s so much scope for imagination. But I’m glad it’s not rainy today because it’s easier to be cheerful and bear up under affliction on a sunshiny day. I feel that I have a good deal to bear up under.

8

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 ...

9

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it’s so hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it?

Q

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

11

‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’

tussle

I really feel that I cannot bear not knowing any longer. It’s a dreadful feeling.

Q

Somehow, things never are so good when they’re thought out a second time.

“A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

If I wasn’t a human girl I think I’d like to be a bee and live among the flowers.”

“Oh, but there’s such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,”

“You may know a thing is so, but you can’t help hoping other people don’t quite think it is. I suppose you think I have an awful temper, but I couldn’t help it. When she said those things something just rose right up in me and choked me. I HAD to fly out at her.”

Gables already, and I never loved any place

“You set your heart too much on things, Anne,”

“I’m afraid there’ll be a great many disappointments in store for you through life.”

“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the p...

“You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun o...

“Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren’t born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

“Honest I am. Don’t be mad for keeps, now.”

Oh, this is wonderful! It’s a ray of light which will forever shine on the darkness of a path severed from thee, Diana.

“Oh, Matthew, isn’t it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn’t it? Those trees look as if I could

blow them away with a breath — pouf!

“You must learn to think a little, Anne, that’s what. The proverb you need to go by is ‘Look before you leap’ — especially into spare-room beds.”

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.”

I’ve had my troubles, but one can live down troubles.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a very comforting thought.”

All “spirit and fire and dew,” as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled

intensity.

shrewish

Aggressive

hastily

Hurriedly

cross,”

Annoyed

oft

Often

Life was certainly very interesting.

gadding.”

garret.

mottoes

a little “appreciation” sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious “bringing up” in the world.

cogitation