Anne of Green Gables: The Complete Collection (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8)

by L.M. Montgomery

I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things,”

“No, I’m old... or rather middle-aged, which is far worse,” sighed Miss Lavendar. “Sometimes I can pretend I’m not, but at other times I realize it. And I can’t reconcile myself to it as most women seem to.

That’s the worst... or the best... of real life, Anne. It WON’T let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable... and succeeding...even when you’re determined to be unhappy and romantic.

“Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring,”

“That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.”

As a general thing...” Paul shook his brown curls gravely... “I don’t like to be surprised. You lose all the fun of expecting things when you’re surprised.

when all’s said and done, Miss Shirley, ma’am, there’s many a worse thing than a husband.”

And I don’t want her to be like other people. There are too many other people around as it is.

Oh, I think these engagements are dreadfully unsettling things when they happen to your intimate friends.”

In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”

“All your life, Davy, you’ll find yourself doing things you don’t want to do.”

“Yes, I feel like Byron’s ‘Childe Harold’ — only it isn’t really my ‘native shore’ that I’m watching,” said Anne, winking her gray eyes vigorously. “Nova Scotia is that, I suppose. But one’s native shore is the land one loves the best, and that’s good old P.E.I. for me.

She had the sense of a long passage of time which one day of change and travel gives.

The States must be an awful place. I hope you’ll never go there, Anne.

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert.

But, oh, Gilbert, don’t let’s ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

Well, a man is nothing but trouble as I sees it and of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest, but what else is there for a woman in this world?

“I do like it... I’ve always liked washing dishes. It’s fun to make dirty things clean and shining again.”

I think it is just misunderstanding that makes most of the trouble in the world.

It seems so strange to read over the stories of those old wars... things that can never happen again.

‘Nobody is ever too old to wear just what she wants to wear.