“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
“Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“If I were a man I think I’d be a minster. They can have such an influence for good, if their theology is sound; and it must be thrilling to preach splendid sermons and stir your hearers’ hearts. Why can’t women be ministers, Marilla? I asked Mrs. Lynde that and she was shocked and said it would be a scandalous thing. She said there might be female ministers in the States and she believed there was, but thank goodness we hadn’t got to that stage in Canada yet and she hoped we never would. But I don't see why. I think women would be splendid ministers. When a social reunion is to be prepared, it's the women who do all the work. I'm sure that Mrs. Lynde can pray each prayer just as well as Mr. Bell, and I don't doubt she could preach well with some practice.”
― Anne of Green Gables: The Unexpected Arrival at Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables: The Unexpected Arrival at Green Gables
“The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn't it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath--pouf! I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
Iara’s 2025 Year in Books
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