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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) QUOTES

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) QUOTES

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

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

2 " I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

3 " Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

4 " I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

5 " When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

6 " The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it? "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

7 " It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

8 " My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

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

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

10 " Why must people kneel down to pray? 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 in 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 , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

11 " Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

12 " When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I am going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new beauties - what curves and hills and valleys farther on. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

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

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

14 " Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

15 " We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find out interest in life returning to us. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

16 " I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

17 " But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

18 " God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

19 " 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--it's such an interesting world "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

20 " He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)