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“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
“Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…”
― Anne of Windy Poplars
― Anne of Windy Poplars
“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
“I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
“That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
“Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
“I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla.
Anne glowed.
'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.”
― Anne of Avonlea
Anne glowed.
'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.”
― Anne of Avonlea
“You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.”
― Anne of Windy Poplars
― Anne of Windy Poplars
“She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
“…unwitting that those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
“Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
“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.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
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