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

480 quotes

"I'm so dreadfully lonely—so very dreadfully lonely."
"I'm afraid of being ordinary."
Fear
"Everything is nicer when there are two of you."
"I wish I could have a bosom friend."
Friendship
"What a splendid thing it is to read about the nobility of the great deeds of the world."
Literature
"I think I'm a very strange girl."
"It's been my experience that your second wind comes just when you thought you couldn't go on another step."
Perseverance
"I feel like I want to do something splendid before I die."
"I can't talk things over with people who wouldn't understand them."
"I never can decide which would be worse—to be burned to death or to be frozen to death."
Imagination
"I think we're going to be the greatest friends."
"I love this little spot of earth with all my heart."
"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
"Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet."
Hope
"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person."
"I'm afraid of wasting my life on nothing."
Dreams
"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think."
Friendship
"The body is the prison house of the soul."
Philosophy
"I wish I could go back to the time when I thought the future was an unspoiled blank."
Time
"I've learned to look on the bright side of things."
"After all, tomorrow is a new day, and we'll begin again."
Courage
"I don't want to be a human being—I want to be a woman."
"Maybe it just means something is not worth doing if it has to be done with a guilty conscience."
Truth
"It's nicer to think ill of people than good, because when you find they're better than you expected they seem so much nicer."
Relationships
"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those big violin-concerto days, but just those made up of little things."
Wisdom
"There's another bend in the road. Hidden Brook is such a mysterious place."
Adventure
"I was just thinking how much nicer it would be if I was a boy."
"I have something dreadful to confess."
Truth
"Life is a blessed thing, isn't it?"
Life