Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8)

by L.M. Montgomery

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"

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?

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

"You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.'

"I guess Gilbert Blythe will be in school today,"

Anne had evidently made up her mind to hate Gilbert Blythe to the end of life.

that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored;

one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?"

Miss Stacy was a bright, sympathetic young woman with the happy gift of winning and holding the affections of her pupils and bringing out the best that was in them mentally and morally.

When you ran off the platform after the fairy dialogue one of your roses fell out of your hair. I saw Gil pick it up and put it in his breast pocket. There now. You're so romantic that I'm sure you ought to be pleased at that."

it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know

sure to happen every day, and the children say such amusing things. Jane says she punishes her pupils