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“Let us drink,” he said, “to the silent army -- to the boys who followed when the Piper summoned. ‘For our tomorrow they gave their today’ — theirs is the victory!”

“And you will tell your children of the Idea we fought and died for — teach them it must be lived for as well as died for, else the price paid for it will have been given for nought.”

The page where L.M. Montgomery shattered my heart.

“No matter how much we value what our lessons have brought us we don’t want to go on with the bitter schooling.”

“It is easier to behave nicely when you have your good clothes on.”

“The more we love we love the richer life is — even if it is only some little furry or feathery pet.”

“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”

“It’s so nice when you can love people because so often you can’t.”

“It’s a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years . . . hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.”

“There isn’t any devil in a good dog. That’s why they’re more lovable than cats, I reckon.”

“When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy . . . and it glowers in at you resentfully.”

“But I do say I pity you if you take that iceberg and nutmeg grater combined home with you for Christmas.”

Chapter 3 of Year 2 - Such a beautiful part of this book and a wonderful reminder that we don’t know the journeys people have traveled down. I love the way Anne is able to get down to the core of who people truly are through her empathy and listening ear.

“Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.”

“Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren’t clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.”

“Oh, but I’ve left out the transforming thing,” said Anne softly. “There’ll be love there, Phil - faithful, tender love, such as I’ll never find anywhere else in the world – well that’s waiting for me. That makes my picturea masterpiece, doesn’t it, even if the colors are not very brilliant?“

“ I’m sure no life can be properly developed and rounded out without some trial and sorrow – though I suppose it is only when we are pretty comfortable that we admit it.“

“We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones nothing more need be added.”

“I’m sure no matter how long I’d lived in heaven I’d like to look down and see somebody putting flowers on my grave.”

“I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves.”

“After all, when one can see stars and skies like that, little disappointments and accidents can’t matter so much, can they?”

“If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don’t you think? Then friendship would be the most beautiful thing in the world.”

“Jonah days come to everyone.”

“ . . . She was born already brought up, so she doesn’t need us; and I think,” concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, “that we always love best the people who need us.”

Anne was a sweet-souled lass, but she could instill some venom into innocent italics when occasion required.

“You’re never safe from being surprised till you’re dead.”

“Have you ever noticed,” asked Anne reflectively, “that when Lee say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it is a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?”

“Fancies are like shadows . . . you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward dancing things.”

“Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot of and there never seems to be any end to them—that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition, you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”

“Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,” declared Anne.