Gina

“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’m so glad my window looks east into the sun rising,” said Anne, going over to Diana. “It’s so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It’s new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine. Oh,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“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