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

by L.M. Montgomery

"The little birds sang as if it were The one day of summer in all the year."

when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while-and

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?

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

'My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.'

"Why, because it sounds so nice and romantic, just as if I were a heroine in a book, you know. I am so fond of romantic things, and a graveyard full of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine isn't it?

a sunrise had been dawning on Anne's face.

And she is good and smart, which is better than being pretty."

The heroine had five lovers. I'd be satisfied with one, wouldn't you?

But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."

He told his mother—his MOTHER, mind you—that you were the smartest girl in school. That's better than being good looking."

Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate not head—clear across.

And you know one can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

I don't want to hurt your feelings but it seems to me you might have thought of this before if you'd any imagination.

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."

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."

Headaches always left Marilla somewhat sarcastic.

"But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice."

"Anne, are you killed?" shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend.

But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth.

Overcome by the pain of her injury, Anne had one more of her wishes granted to her. She had fainted dead away.

What do people who haven't any imagination do when they break their bones, do you suppose, Marilla?"

"There's one thing plain to be seen, Anne," said Marilla, "and that is that your fall off the Barry roof hasn't injured your tongue at all."

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."

Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

I mostly always have to tell them what to write about, but that isn't hard for I've millions of ideas."

As for your chatter, I don't know that I mind it—I've got so used to it." Which was Marilla's way of saying that she liked to hear it.

"Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little of it is a good thing—not too much, of course—but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it."

"I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home."

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting."

I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

Were we really there half an hour? It seemed just a

few minutes. But, you see, we have five years' lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla."

"If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and SNEEZED, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!"

"There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.

this is a day left over from Eden,

"But oughtn't we be prepared for the best too?" pleaded Anne. "It's just as likely to happen as the worst."

Think of that, teacher, I've been in the sunset. And what do you suppose it is? The sunset is a land all flowers. We sailed into a great garden, and the clouds are beds of flowers. We sailed into a great harbor, all the color of gold, and I stepped right out of the boat on a big meadow all covered with buttercups as big as roses. I stayed there for ever so long.

"If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,"

"I'm so glad you SPOKE that thought,

But sometimes," concluded Paul with a sigh and a meditative air "I really think porridge will be the death of me."

"How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view,"

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?"

Oh dear, I do really begin to believe that I was born under an ill-omened star."

But he meant to keep himself worthy of Anne's friendship and perhaps some distant day her love; and he watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass in judgment on it. She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she

were ever false to them.

anybody so divinely beautiful as Mrs. Pendexter didn't need to talk; it was enough for her just to LOOK.

idea of a woman of forty-five playing at having a tea party, just as if she were a little girl! But Anne of the shining eyes exclaimed joyfuly, "Oh, do YOU imagine things too?" That "too" revealed a kindred spirit to Miss Lavendar.

"She looks just as music sounds, I think,"

I don't care what people think about me if they don't let me see it."