Anne Shirley

Character in Anne of Green Gables From: Anne of Green Gables

Protagonist; imaginative orphan girl with a gift for dramatic speech and witty observations

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"There's no such thing as an uninteresting life."
"I want to be a credit to Green Gables."
Motivation
"Real friendship is such a wonderful thing, isn't it?"
Friendship
"I love that dress because it's so pretty, but when I think of all the comfort I've had in this old one, I love it better."
Gratitude
"I'm so thankful for kind people."
Kindness
"It's such fun to have dreams and the hope of seeing them come true."
Dreams
"I was dreaming and didn't see you."
Imagination
"I love to look on the bright side of things."
"Oh, how I wish I were beautiful!"
Beauty
"I'm trying to be good, but it's so hard work."
Perseverance
"Isn't life splendid?"
Life
"I've made up my mind to be a model girl while I'm at Queen's."
"I want to take a real, important part in the world."
"I'm sorry, but I couldn't help laughing at the look on your face."
Humor
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world."
Imagination
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
Nature
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
Happiness
"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person."
"I suppose you think I'm very wicked to have said what I did about Mrs. Grayson."
Truth
"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think."
Friendship
"I'd rather be a bird than anything else in the world."
Freedom
"Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet."
Hope
"I just love bright red hair color; it's so romantic."
Imagination
"The most tragic thing in the world is a person who has never known what it is to love."
Love
"People laugh at me because my head is always in the clouds."
Creativity
"I was born waiting for you."
Friendship
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
Perseverance
"I hope you won't think I talk too much."
"I think perhaps we've both been too serious."
Humor
"A bosom friend is a thing even better than an imagination."
Friendship