Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables Complete Series Book 1)

by L.M. Montgomery

I love bright red drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color."

I do not believe that God Himself can do very much with such an obstinate person as Mrs. Barry."

Of course I am not cross at you because you have to obey your mother.

She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves.

It makes me very sad at times to think about her. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?"

I love a book that makes me cry.

when the choir sang "Far Above the Gentle Daisies" Anne gazed at the ceiling as if it were frescoed with angels;

"Something just flashes into your mind, so exciting, and you must out with it. If you stop to think it over you spoil it all.

Little girls never indulged in that kind of fun when I was young.

You don't know what it is to be awakened out of a sound sleep,

"I've made up my mind to stay simply for the sake of getting better acquainted with that Anne-girl," she said frankly. "She amuses me, and at my time of life an amusing person is a rarity."

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."

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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."

"I do truly wish I could have had the headache in your place, Marilla. I would have endured it joyfully for your sake."

"Oh, I'm so sorry," said Anne penitently. "I never thought about that pie from the moment I put it in the oven till now, although I felt INSTINCTIVELY that there was something missing on the dinner table.

At last it struck me that it would be splendid to call it Victoria Island because we found it on the Queen's birthday.

The goblins of her fancy lurked in every shadow about her, reaching out their cold, fleshless hands to grasp the terrified small girl who had called them into being.

"Oh, Mar—Marilla," chattered Anne, "I'll b-b-be contt-tented with c-c-commonplace places after this."

Jane Andrews said she thought puffed sleeves were too worldly for a minister's wife, but I didn't make any such uncharitable remark, Marilla, because I know what it is to long for puffed sleeves.

Mrs. Allan said we ought always to try to influence other people for good. She talked so nice about everything. I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her.

"Yes; but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good,"

"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

"But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice." "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones."

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought."

I believe I could be a model child if I were just invited out to tea every day.

Anne watched them as she talked and somehow felt that wind and stars and fireflies were all tangled up together into something unutterably sweet and enchanting.

Mrs. Lynde says they've never had a female teacher in Avonlea before and she thinks it is a dangerous innovation.

"I must do it. My honor is at stake," said Anne solemnly. "I shall walk that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt. If I am killed you are to have my pearl bead ring."

"Anne, are you killed?" shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. "Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed."

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

"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."

Mustn't it be splendid to be remarkable and have compositions written about you after you're dead? Oh, I would dearly love to be remarkable.

That would have been ridiculous, for who ever heard of a fairy queen as fat as Josie? Fairy queens must be slender.

Josie says she thinks a red-haired fairy is just as ridiculous as a fat one,

Matthew thanked his stars many a time and oft that he had nothing to do with bringing her up. That was Marilla's exclusive duty; if it had been his he would have been worried over frequent conflicts between inclination and said duty.

Chapter 25. Matthew Insists On Puffed Sleeves

Anne was not dressed like the other girls!

but he was quite sure that Anne's sleeves did not look at all like the sleeves the other girls wore.

But surely it would do no harm to let the child have one pretty dress—something

The way Marilla dresses her is positively ridiculous, that's what,

There's enough material in those sleeves alone to make a waist, I declare there is. You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.

The puffs have been getting bigger and more ridiculous right along; they're as big as balloons now. Next year anybody who wears them will have to go through a door sideways."

The firs in the Haunted Wood were all feathery and wonderful; the birches and wild cherry trees were outlined in pearl; the plowed fields were stretches of snowy dimples; and there was a crisp tang in the air that was glorious.

I knew that I must live up to those sleeves, Diana.

"Perhaps after a while I'll get used to it, but I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

It must be a great deal better to be sensible; but still, I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic.

I simply can't talk about Josie Pye without making an uncharitable speech, so I never mention her at all.

My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties.

I'm afraid I think too much about my nose ever since I heard that compliment about it long ago. It really is a great comfort to me.