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

by L.M. Montgomery

the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you must make it up FIRMLY.

‘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.”

Gracious heavenly Father, I thank Thee for the White Way of

Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters and Bonny and the Snow Queen. I’m really extremely grateful for them. And that’s all the blessings I can think of just now to thank Thee for. As for the things I want, they’re so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all so I will only mention the two most important. Please let me stay at Green Gables; and please let me be good-looking when I grow up. I remain, Yours respectfully, Anne Shirley.

Revelations, third chapter, second and third verses.

“If you love me as I love you Nothing but death can part us two.

I assure you, Marilla, that I feel like praying tonight and I’m going to think out a special brand-new prayer in honor of the occasion.”

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?”

“If I had been the boy you sent for,” said Anne wistfully, “I’d be able to help you so much now and spare you in a hundred ways. I could find it in my heart to wish I had been, just for that.” “Well now, I’d rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,” said Matthew patting her hand. “Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn’t a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I’m proud of.”

He smiled his shy smile

she could hear his voice saying, “My girl — my girl that I’m proud of.” Then the tears came and Anne wept her heart out. Marilla heard her and crept in to comfort her.

God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’” whispered Anne softly.