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“...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
Iara’s 2025 Year in Books
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