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

by L.M. Montgomery

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

“I wonder if it will be — can be — any more beautiful than this,” murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom “home” must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

“To think that this is my twentieth birthday, and that I’ve left my teens behind me forever,” said Anne,

“He said, ‘Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.’

If I can’t love you I mean to be proud of you at least.”