Gina

“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

“Marilla!” Anne sat down on Marilla’s gingham lap, took Marilla’s lined face between her hands, and looked gravely and tenderly into Marilla’s eyes. “I’m not a bit changed—not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me—back here—is just the same. It won’t make a bit of difference where I go or how much I change outwardly; at heart I shall always be your little Anne, who will love you and Matthew and dear Green Gables more and better every day of her life.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I’ve had a splendid time,” she concluded happily, “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