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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.

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Proverbs are all very fine when there’s nothing to worry you, but when you’re in real trouble, they’re not a bit of help.

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Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more ’scope for the imagination without them. – Anne Shirley.

No, I’ve neither wife nor progeny, Miss Plum. I’ve often tried to get married, but something always prevented. Sometimes everyone was willing but the girl herself. Sometimes nobody was willing.

There’s always a piece of unfinished work left,′ said Mrs. Lynde, with tears in her eyes. ‘But I supposed there’s always some one to finish it.

Ilse lost her temper at once and went into a true Burnley tantrum. She was very fluent in her rages and the volley of abusive “dictionary words” which she hurled at Emily would have staggered most of the Blair Water Girls. But Emily was too much at home with words to be floored so easily; she grew angry too, but in a cool, dignified, Murray way which was more exasperating than violence.

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

Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.

But trust one man to excuse another.

Well, it was awful said,” said Felicity, wiping her eyes. “But it was long ago and we can’t do any good by crying over it now. Let us go and get something to eat. I made some nice little rhubarb tarts this morning.

Soul-ache doesn’t worry folks near as much as stomach-ache.

First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.

How do you like my picture, Phil?” “It seems a very dull one,” said Phil, with a grimace. “Oh, but I’ve left out the transforming thing,” said Anne softly. “There’ll be love there, Phil – faithful, tender love, such as I’ll never find anywhere else in the world – love that’s waiting for me. That makes my picture a masterpiece, doesn’t it, even if the colors are not very brilliant?

One forgets all through the year how lovely spring really is and so it comes as a surprise every time.

There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don’t think about things and then – we remember – and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.

Marilla Cuthbert was driving into the yard as Anne returned from the house, and the latter flew to get tea ready. They discussed the matter at the tea table. “I’ll be glad when the auction is over,” said Marilla. “It is too much responsibility having so much stock about the place and nobody but that unreliable Martin to look after them. He has never come back yet and he promised that he would certainly be back last.

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this – I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his... he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so.

I don’t know whether it is any use forgiving people or not. Yes, it is, it makes you feel more comfortable yourself.

A child who was more or less under-nourished – not in body, but in soul. More of a moonbeam than a sunbeam.

Tommy and Adam Cowan, over at Markdale, are twins; and they’re both cross-eyed. So I s’posed that was what being twins meant.

Big guns are good but the Almighty is better, and He is on our side, no matter what the Kaiser says about it.

Oh, what I know about myself isn’t really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you’ll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you’ll think it ever so much more interesting.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

And the coming of Anne – the vivid, imaginative, impetuous child with her heart of love, and her world of fancy, bringing with her color and warmth and radiance, until the wilderness of existence had blossomed like the rose.

Rilla meant to keep Walter’s letter as a a sacred treasure.

If you believe in a thing it doesn’t matter whether it exists or not.

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.

Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad’s Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.

It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.

It’s a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.

You couldn’t really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you?

I think the nicest thing about days is their unexpectedness. It’s jolly to wake up like this on a golden-fine morning and day-dream for ten minutes before I get up, imagining heaps of splendid things that might happen.

It’s lovely to be going home and know it’s home. I love green gables already, and I’ve never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I’m so happy.

I kind of think she’s one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you.

But what is the use of being an independent old maid if you can’t be silly when you want to, and when it doesn’t hurt anybody? A person must have some compensations.

No matter what dreadful things happened at least there were still cats in the world.

Don’t believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn’t mean for us to imagine them away.

Chapter 15 A Tempest in the School Teapot.

Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot. Joy – happiness – sorrow – fear – every passion that had wrung her heart in those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a moment as the deeps of being were stirred. She had tried to speak; at first voice would not come. Then – “Yeth,” said Rilla.

Oh, no, you did not, Mrs. Dr. dear,” said loyal Susan, determined to protect Anne from herself.

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

I don’t know which is worse – to have somebody you DON’T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

It’s fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it’s not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There’s so much to learn and do and think that there isn’t time for big words.

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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one’s imagination of it?

The trouble with you people is that you don’t laugh enough.

They can laugh when things go wrong. I like that. Anyone can laugh when it’s all smooth sailing.

I’ve always thought nobody understood me quite as well as I understood myself.

You’ve all been so sure that life is good that I’ve never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

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