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  • #1
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #2
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #3
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #4
    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #5
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #6
    L.M. Montgomery
    “There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #7
    L.M. Montgomery
    “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

  • #8
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #9
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #10
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all," Anne confided to Marilla, "You wouldn't think so to look at her, but she is. . . Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #11
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #12
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #13
    L.M. Montgomery
    “The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #14
    L.M. Montgomery
    “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.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #15
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #16
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Diana: "Gilbert told Charlie Sloan that you were the smartest girl in school, right in front of Josie."
    Anne: "He did?"
    Diana: "He told Charlie being smart was better than being good looking."
    Anne: "I should have known he meant to insult me.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #17
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Perhaps LOVE unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship.. as a golden hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #18
    L.M. Montgomery
    “But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”
    L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #19
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #20
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #21
    L.M. Montgomery
    “We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables



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