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2011-07-09
"That is one good thing about this world ... there are always certain to be more springs."

- Anne Shirley

2011-07-17
"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it."

- Anne Shirley

2011-08-23
"I love Green Gables already, and I never loved any other place before. No other place ever seemed like home."

- Anne upon visiting Green Gables for the first time

2012-01-16
"We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great."

- Mrs Allan

2012-02-12
"God's in his heaven, all's right with the world."

- The last spoken words in Anne of Green Gables, said by Anne

2012-05-06
"I could never whip a child. I don't believe in it at all. Miss Stacy never whipped any of us and she had perfect order; and Mr Phillips was always whipping and he had no order at all. No, if I can't get along without whipping I shall not try to teach school. There are better ways of managing. I shall try to win my pupils' affections and then they will want to do what I tell them."

- Anne Shirley expressing her opinions on corporal punishment

2012-05-19
"Oh, Marilla, it's a perfectly elegant brooch. I don't know how you can pay attention to the sermon or the prayers when you have it on. I couldn't, I know. I think amethysts are just sweet. They are what I used to think diamonds were like. Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like. I thought they would be lovely glimmering purple stones. When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond. Will you let me hold the brooch for one minute, Marilla? Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?"

- Anne's soliloquy on Marilla's amethyst brooch

2012-06-02
"Marilla, Anne has sent me to tell you that a certain young gentleman has arrived here. He hasn't brought much luggage with him, but he evidently means to stay."

- Gilbert telling Marilla about Jem's birth

2012-06-16
"Gracious heavenly Father, I thank Thee for the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters and Bonny and the Snow Queen. I'm really extremely grateful for them. And that's all the blessings I can think of just now to thank Thee for. As for the things I want, they're so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all so I will only mention the two most important. Please let me stay at Green Gables; and please let me be good-looking when I grow up. I remain, yours respectfully, Anne Shirley."

- Anne's "prayer" upon her second night at Green Gables

2012-10-07
"Oh, Mrs. Lynde, I am so extremely sorry. I could never express all my sorrow, no, not if I used up a whole dictionary. You must just imagine it. I behaved terribly to you--and I've disgraced the dear friends, Matthew and Marilla, who have let me stay at Green Gables although I'm not a boy. I'm a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people forever. It was very wicked of me to fly into a temper because you told me the truth. It was the truth; every word you said was true. My hair is red and I'm freckled and skinny and ugly. What I said to you was true, too, but I shouldn't have said it. Oh, Mrs. Lynde, please, please, forgive me. If you refuse it will be a lifelong sorrow on a poor little orphan girl would you, even if she had a dreadful temper? Oh, I am sure you wouldn't. Please say you forgive me, Mrs. Lynde."

- Anne's "apology" to Rachel Lynde

2012-10-15
"You're a queer girl, Anne. I heard before that you were queer. But I believe I'm going to like you real well."

- Diana Barry to Anne Shirley upon their first meeting

2013-02-27
"'[My Aunt Jinny] called her three girls Faith, Hope and Charity. Faith didn't believe in anything – Hope was a born pessimist – and Charity was a miser."

- Norman Douglas to Faith Meredith

2013-04-10
"Oh, I want to know who you two girls are. I've been dying to know. I saw you at Redmond this morning. Say, wasn't it awful there? For the first time I wished I had stayed home and got married."

- Philippa's first words to Anne and Priscilla

2013-05-06
"'I'm not going to eat any more cake ... because I'm getting fatter every year. I've such a horror of getting like great-aunt Sarah ... she was so fat she always had to be pulled up when she sat down.'" &mdash;Diana Wright (Diana Barry) in Anne of Ingleside: Chapter 2

2013-05-19
"'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.'" &mdash;Aunt Jamesina in

2013-07-05
"'Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.'" &mdash;Stella Maynard in

2013-08-04
"'If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!'" &mdash;Anne Shirley in

2013-11-11
"'One can always find something lovely to look at or to listen to.'" &mdash;Anne Shirley to Katherine Brooke in

2014-01-07
"'Exaggeration is merely a flight of poetic fancy.'" &mdash;Philippa Gordon in

2014-04-24
"'I am old-fashioned. My clothes are, and it stands to reason my opinions are, too. I don't say they're any the better of that, mind you. In fact, I daresay they're a good deal the worse. But they've worn nice and easy. New shoes are smarter than old ones, but the old ones are more comfortable. I'm old enough to indulge myself in the matter of shoes and opinions.'" &mdash;Aunt Jamesina in

2015-01-06
"'How nice it is to be back! After all, none of the Avonlea places are quite as nice as Rainbow Valley.'" &mdash;Nan Blythe in

2016-07-03
"'Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?'" &mdash;Miss Cornelia in