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“Clue: The answer is not 5 cigarettes.”
― Puzzleland, 30 Interactive Brainteasers to Warm up your Brain

“Three closed boxes have either  apples, bananas, or both, and they are labeled “Apples”, “Bananas”, and “Mixed”. However, each box has the wrong label on it. You may open one box only to see its contents. Which box should you open to determine the contents of all three boxes?”
― Puzzleland, 30 Interactive Brainteasers to Warm up your Brain

“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.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“as Mrs. Lynde would say, the sun will go on rising and setting whether I fail in geometry or not.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“That is true but not especially comforting. I think I'd rather it didn't go on if I failed!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“You're never safe from being surprised till you're dead.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“Life is rich and full here … everywhere … if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fulness.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables: Complete Collection

“criticizes Julia. I think it is desecration to call that friendship. If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“let's forget our troubles and think of our mercies,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“whenever we think of anything that is a trial to us we should also think of something nice that we can set over against it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“forgot to tell you what happened the day the minister called here. It was the funniest thing I ever saw. I said to Marilla, 'If Anne had been here wouldn't she have had a laugh?' Even Marilla laughed. You know he's a very short, fat little man with bow legs. Well, that old pig of Mr. Harrison's—the big, tall one—had wandered over here that day again and broke into the yard, and it got into the back porch, unbeknowns to us, and it was there when the minister appeared in the doorway. It made one wild bolt to get out, but there was nowhere to bolt to except between them bow legs. So there it went, and, being as it was so big and the minister so little, it took him clean off his feet and carried him away. His hat went one way and his cane another, just as Marilla and I got to the door. I'll never forget the look of him. And that poor pig was near scared to death. I'll never be able to read that account in the Bible of the swine that rushed madly down the steep place into the sea without seeing Mr. Harrison's pig careering down the hill with that minister. I guess the pig thought he had the Old Boy on his back instead of inside of him. I was thankful the twins weren't about. It wouldn't have been the right thing for them to have seen a minister in such an undignified predicament. Just before they got to the brook the minister jumped off or fell off. The pig rushed through the brook like mad and up through the woods. Marilla and I run down and helped the minister get up and brush his coat. He wasn't hurt, but he was mad. He seemed to hold Marilla and me responsible for it all, though we told him the pig didn't belong to us, and had been pestering us all summer. Besides, what did he come to the back door for? You'd never have caught Mr. Allan doing that. It'll be a long time before we get a man like Mr. Allan. But it's an ill wind that blows no good. We've never seen hoof or hair of that pig since, and it's my belief we never will.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“there are thome thingth no fellow can underthtand.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“Anne," said Jane, still more solemnly, "what do you think of my brother Billy?" Anne gasped over this unexpected question, and floundered helplessly in her thoughts. Goodness, what DID she think of Billy Andrews? She had never thought ANYTHING about him—round-faced, stupid, perpetually smiling, good-natured Billy Andrews. Did ANYBODY ever think about Billy Andrews? "I—I don't understand, Jane," she stammered. "What do you mean—exactly?" "Do you like Billy?" asked Jane bluntly. "Why—why—yes, I like him, of course," gasped Anne, wondering if she were telling the literal truth. Certainly she did not DISlike Billy. But could the indifferent tolerance with which she regarded him, when he happened to be in her range of vision, be considered positive enough for liking? WHAT was Jane trying to elucidate? "Would you like him for a husband?" asked Jane calmly. "A husband!" Anne had been sitting up in bed, the better to wrestle with the problem of her exact opinion of Billy Andrews. Now she fell flatly back on her pillows, the very breath gone out of her. "Whose husband?" "Yours, of course," answered Jane. "Billy wants to marry you. He's always been crazy about you—and now father has given him the upper farm in his own name and there's nothing to prevent him from getting married. But he's so shy he couldn't ask you himself if you'd have him, so he got me to do it. I'd rather not have, but he gave me no peace till I said I would, if I got a good chance. What do you think about it, Anne?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“Only one disagreeable incident marred that winter. Charlie Sloane, sitting bolt upright on Miss Ada's most dearly beloved cushion, asked Anne one night if she would promise "to become Mrs. Charlie Sloane some day." Coming after Billy Andrews' proxy effort, this was not quite the shock to Anne's romantic sensibilities that it would otherwise have been; but it was certainly another heart-rending disillusion. She was angry, too, for she felt that she had never given Charlie the slightest encouragement to suppose such a thing possible. But what could you expect of a Sloane, as Mrs. Rachel Lynde would ask scornfully? Charlie's whole attitude, tone, air, words, fairly reeked with Sloanishness. "He was conferring a great honor—no doubt whatever about that. And when Anne, utterly insensible to the honor, refused him, as delicately and considerately as she could—for even a Sloane had feelings which ought not to be unduly lacerated—Sloanishness still further betrayed itself. Charlie certainly did not take his dismissal as Anne's imaginary rejected suitors did. Instead, he became angry, and showed it; he said two or three quite nasty things; Anne's temper flashed up mutinously and she retorted with a cutting little speech whose keenness pierced even Charlie's protective Sloanishness and reached the quick; he caught up his hat and flung himself out of the house with a very red face; Anne rushed upstairs, falling twice over Miss Ada's cushions on the way, and threw herself on her bed, in tears of humiliation and rage. Had she actually stooped to quarrel with a Sloane? Was it possible anything Charlie Sloane could say had power to make her angry? Oh, this was degradation, indeed—worse even than being the rival of Nettie Blewett!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“One time they had a minister in Spencervale who was a very good, spiritual man but very deaf. He couldn't hear any ordinary conversation at all. Well, they used to have a prayer meeting on Sunday evenings, and all the church members present would get up and pray in turn, or say a few words on some Bible verse. But one evening Aunt Atossa bounced up. She didn't either pray or preach. Instead, she lit into everybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years. Finally she wound up by saying that she was disgusted with Spencervale church and she never meant to darken its door again, and she hoped a fearful judgment would come upon it. Then she sat down out of breath, and the minister, who hadn't heard a word she said, immediately remarked, in a very devout voice, 'amen! The Lord grant our dear sister's prayer!' You ought to hear father tell the story.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“No, not even then." "Well, I won't. Ludovic Speed and Theodora Dix live in Middle Grafton and Mrs. Rachel says he has been courting her for a hundred years. Won't they soon be too old to get married, Anne? I hope Gilbert won't court YOU that long. When are you going to be married, Anne? Mrs. Lynde says it's a sure thing." "Mrs. Lynde is a—" began Anne hotly; then stopped. "Awful old gossip," completed Davy calmly. "That's what every one calls her. But is it a sure thing, Anne? I want to know.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“There is something I want to say to you." "Oh, don't say it," cried Anne, pleadingly. "Don't—PLEASE, Gilbert." "I must. Things can't go on like this any longer. Anne, I love you. You know I do. I—I can't tell you how much. Will you promise me that some day you'll be my wife?" "I—I can't," said Anne miserably. "Oh, Gilbert—you—you've spoiled everything.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“So you're the Miss Shirley I've always heard so much of. You ain't a bit like a Miss Shirley I once knew. She had such beautiful eyes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“Well, well, you ain't a bit like I expected. I always thought Sally would pick out a tall handsome man,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“You bet it isn't," said the unrepentant. "Hello, Nora, when are we going to have a chance to dance at your wedding?" Nora did not answer in words. She went closer up to him and deliberately slapped him, first on one side of his face and then on the other. The slaps were not make-believe ones. Then she went upstairs without looking behind her.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“Jim gave her one incredulous look … then sprang at her. Perhaps her nose had stopped bleeding … perhaps it hadn't. It didn't matter. "I think you've all forgotten that this is the Sabbath morn," said Aunt Mouser, who had just remembered it herself. "I could do with a cup of tea if any one would make it. I ain't used to demonstrations like this. All I hope is poor Nora has really landed him at last. At least, she has witnesses." They went to the kitchen and Mrs. Nelson came down and made tea for them … all except Jim and Nora, who remained closeted in the library with Barnabas for chaperon. Anne did not see Nora until the morning … such a different Nora, ten years younger, flushed with happiness.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“Oh, I know. I thought I loved him, too. But now I know it was all a terrible mistake. Oh, Miss Shirley, you can't dream how difficult my life is … how impossible." "I know something about it," said Anne sympathetically, remembering Roy Gardiner.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“Oh, I know. I thought I loved him, too. But now I know it was all a terrible mistake. Oh, Miss Shirley, you can't dream how difficult my life is … how impossible." "I know something about it," said Anne sympathetically, remembering Roy Gardiner. "Oh, Miss Shirley, I'm sure I don't love him enough to marry him. I realize that now … now that it is too late. I was just moonlighted into thinking I loved him. If it hadn't been for the moon I'm sure I would have asked for time to think it over. But I was swept off my feet … I can see that now.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series

“You've taken a weight off my mind, Anne. Hazel's a sweet little thing, of course, I hated to think of hurting her, but I've realized my … our … mistake for some weeks. When one meets a woman … the woman … you're not going in yet, Anne? Is all this good moonlight to be wasted? You look like a white rose in the moonlight … Anne… ." But Anne had flown.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series