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

by L.M. Montgomery

And as for the risk, there's risks in pretty near everything a body does in this world.

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?

Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.

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

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.