The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8) Quotes

“I don't want her to be like other people. There are too many other people around as it is.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

“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." "Oh, don't you see, Marilla? 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.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

“Don't you know ANY good husbands, Miss Bryant?" "Oh, yes, lots of them—over yonder," said Miss Cornelia, waving her hand through the open window towards the little graveyard of the church across the harbor. "But living—going about in the flesh?" persisted Anne. "Oh, there's a few, just to show that with God all things are possible," acknowledged Miss Cornelia reluctantly.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

“I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

“People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

“If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

“We all come back to God in these days of soul-sifting," said Gertrude to John Meredith. "There have been many days in the past when I didn't believe in God—not as God—only as the impersonal Great First Cause of the scientists. I believe in Him now—I have to—there's nothing else to fall back on but God—humbly, starkly, unconditionally.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

“I don't half like that," said Miss Oliver, with a sigh. "It's ominous—somehow. A perfect thing is a gift of the gods—a sort of compensation for what is coming afterwards.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)