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“Chippy, pulling his hand from Rilla’s. Rilla”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables--The Complete Collection

“Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“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

“О, прекрасно е да имаш амбиции. Радвам се, че ги имам толкова много. И те като че ли никога няма да имат край. Тъкмо постигнеш една цел, и виждаш друга, блеснала още по-високо. Това прави живота толкова интересен.”
― Л.М. Монтгомъри, Anne of Green Gables

“Each girl has to read her story out loud then we talk it over. We are going to keep them all sacredly and have them to read to our descendants. We each write under a nom do plume. Mine is Rosamond Montmorency. All the girls do pretty well. Ruby Gillis is rather sentimental. She puts too much lovemaking into her stories and you know too much is worse than too little. Jane never puts any because she says it makes her feel so silly when she has to read it out loud. Jane’s stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. 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

“I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“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

“Anne talked Matthew and Marilla half-deaf over her discoveries. Not that Matthew complained, to be sure; he listened to it all with a wordless smile of enjoyment on his face; Marilla permitted the "chatter" until she found herself becoming too interested in it, whereupon she always promptly quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue.”
― l. m. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I’ve had a splendid time and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West