Anne of Green Gables Quotes

“Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearth-rug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read in a book once and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul." - Anne Shirley”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when some one we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Isn't this evening just like a purple dream, Diana? It makes me so glad to be alive. In the mornings I always think mornings are best; but when evening comes I think it's lovelier still.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables