The Complete Anne of Green Gables Quotes

“Hate is only love that has missed its way.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Complete Anne of Green Gables

“as she held out her hand, their eyes met and all doubt was swept away in a glad certainty. They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other's keeping and both were unafraid.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars - 8 Books

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

“Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables: The Complete Collection

“I don’t like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get out of bed on frosty mornings and shrink from a visit to the dentist!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“What is to be, will be," said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, "and what isn't to be happens sometimes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars - 8 Books

“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

“everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it’s nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“Well, one can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once,” said Anne gaily. “You see, I was little for fourteen years and I’ve only been grown-uppish for scarcely three. I’m sure I shall always feel like a child in the woods.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne:The Green Gables complete Collection, #1-8

“Chippy, pulling his hand from Rilla’s. Rilla”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables--The Complete Collection

“and it hurts so much that I'm afraid of life.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“It does people good to have to do things they don't like … in moderation.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“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”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables: The Complete Collection

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

“It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that “this, too, will pass away.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables: The Complete Collection

“No... it’s lovely here when the dark is your friend, isn’t it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy... and it glowers in at you resentfully.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“Yet he was a rather nice-looking young man, with crinkly russet eyes and crinkly red-brown hair, not to mention a chin that gave the world assurance of a chin.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“There’s no men like that nowadays. This is a degenerate age, Miss Shirley.” “Homer said the same thing eight hundred years, B.C.,” smiled Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“No, darling. We’ve always known each other in Tomorrow,’ I said.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“I want to know... not just believe... that the world is round.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“Those who knew Anne best felt, without realizing that they felt it, that her greatest attraction was the aura of possibility surrounding her... the power of future development that was in her. She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. As”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“Anne was a sweet-souled lass, but she could instill some venom into innocent italics when occasion required. “What”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“I don’t like places or people either that haven’t any faults. I think a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“April came tiptoeing in beautifully that year with sunshine and soft winds for a few days; and then a driving northeast snowstorm dropped a white blanket over the world”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Anne of Green Gables

“Miss Eliza was one of those people who give you the impression that life is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a waste of nervous energy truly reprehensible. The Andrew girls had been "girls" for fifty odd years and seemed likely to remain girls to the end of their earthly pilgrimage. Catherine, it was said, had not entirely given up hope, but Eliza, who was born a pessimist, had never had any.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“By the brook she came suddenly upon Rosemary West, who was sitting on the old pine tree. She was on her way home from Ingleside, where she had been giving the girls their music lesson. She had been lingering in Rainbow Valley quite a little time, looking across its white beauty and roaming some by-ways of dream. Judging from the expression of her face, her thoughts were pleasant ones. Perhaps the faint, occasional tinkle from the bells on the Tree Lovers brought the little lurking smile to her lips. Or perhaps it was occasioned by the consciousness that John Meredith seldom failed to spend Monday evening in the gray house on the white wind-swept hill.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne:The Green Gables complete Collection, #1-8

“she never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings—which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars - 8 Books