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Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3) QUOTES

Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3) QUOTES

1 " ...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

2 " When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

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

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

4 " The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

5 " I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

6 " That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

7 " Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

8 " We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

9 " She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

10 " She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

11 " People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

12 " Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

13 " I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

14 " I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

15 " Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

16 " I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

17 " We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

18 " Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

19 " …I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

20 " I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)