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Splendid to think of all the things there are to find out

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Marilla, what if I fail!'
'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.

Marilla lighted a candle and

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.

She will love deeply
suffer terribly
she will have glorious moments to compensate.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

They had a sort of talent for happiness.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

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.

Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

Grief is ever proud.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story ... Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

I shall govern by affection, Mr. Harrison.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

It has taught me a lesson not to give my word of honor about cows.

Isn't it a pity we can't have two husbands? One to look at and one to talk to.

Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.

She had ... the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter.

It was a clear, apple-green

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.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.

I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence

It's so easy to be happy on a day like this.

You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.

When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables

That's one splendid thing about such affairs - it's so lovely to look back to them.

... it's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness ...

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Imagination is what you need.

All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.

What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?

The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.

The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. - LONGFELLOW

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.

Anyhow, we've decided on the experiment and goodness only knows what will come of it.

How sympathetic you look, Anne ... as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.

She never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings - which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.

Dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while - and

What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

It's wonderful to have ambition.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a college course.

He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.

Freedom and independence were all very well, but one should not be a little fool.

You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from me into the hearts of storms.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.

Now you see why I can't be perfectly happy. No one could, who has red hair.

And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.

It's the homiest spot I ever saw-it's homier than home avowed Philippa Gorden, looking about her with delighted eyes.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important, said Anne severely

You're a brick! You're a whole cartload of bricks.

I feel sorry now myself," admitted Davy, "but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I've did them.

One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years ... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.

I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me.

People say men are interesting. They may be. But I shall never get well enough acquainted with any of them to find out.

Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it

Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a

Marilla is eighty-five," said Anne with a sigh. "Her hair is snow-white. But, strange to say, her eyesight is better than it was when she was sixty.

To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. Every

It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

How horrible it is that people have to grow up!

I know I chatter on far too much ... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

I doubted God last Sunday " said Rilla "but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Nothing worth while is every easy come by.

The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table.

Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.

Old Mr. Towers believed exactly what he preached and somehow it made a tremendous difference.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.

She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them

The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.

What a spineless thing I must be not to have one enemy!