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

by L.M. Montgomery

idea, Diana," said Anne enthusiastically. "Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

You always bring youth in your hand like a gift.

"You are one of those who have achieved it then," laughed Anne, "and you've done it so beautifully that if every old maid were like you they would come into the fashion, I think."

Things that belong together are sure to come together.

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

"You know time always does stand still in an enchanted palace,"

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps … perhaps … love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful

friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

"That would be a pity; my nose is quite nice, but I fear turning it up would spoil it,"

Love Takes Up the Glass of Time

"Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old."

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

Cats are too sneaky and dolls are DEAD."

And tell him I want that brimstone sermon in December. Great way to wind up the old year—with a taste of hell, you know.

"You're WORTH standing up for."

after I'm dead I'm going to come back to earth every time when the daffodils blow in this garden," said Anne rapturously. "Nobody may see me, but I'll be here. If anybody is in the garden at the time—I THINK I'll come on an evening just like this, but it MIGHT be just at dawn—a lovely, pale-pinky spring dawn—they'll just see the daffodils nodding wildly as if an extra gust of wind had blown past them, but it will be I."