“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― The Story Girl
― The Story Girl
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
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