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Everyone always goes on about how perfect Gilbert Blythe is, but hardly anyone mentions what a good friend Diana is to Anne. If only everyone had a Diana!

Awww 🥰

“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

A Purple Pills reference! Tiny little nod to Blue Castle?

“Anyhow, there’ll be plenty of jam in heaven, that’s one comfort.”
Anne nipped a smile in the bud.
“Perhaps there will be . . . If we want it. But what makes you think so?”
“Why, it’s in the catechism,” said Davy. “‘Why should we love God?’ It says, ‘because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.”

Here a difference is noted between manners and morals.

— Я хочу, щоб була весна постійно, в усіх серцях і в нашому житті

— Це, — відказала Прісцилла, однаково, що бажати світові стати раєм.

— Частиною раю.

I know Davy is only 6, but he’s actually annoying me. Why is he such a big part of this book??