“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
“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
― 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
“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
Iara’s 2025 Year in Books
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